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From: Melanie Crain <>
Subject: Re: [APG] headstone question
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:19:41 -0500
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The OED gives the following definition of "cenotaph:"

▸ noun: a monument to someone buried elsewhere, especially one
commemorating people who died in a war.
(Soanes, Catherine. The Oxford Dictionary of English, 2nd Edition.
Oxford University Press (UK), 2003.).

Melanie Crain


On Feb 1, 2005, at 9:54 PM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 18:23:03 -0800
> "Marcia A. Rice" <> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know the answer to this question? "Is there a term used
>> to denote a headstone without a grave or ashes in a cemetery?" M.
>> Rice
>
> Cenotaph, I believe.
>
> Valorie
>
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