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My father died in France, and my sisters and I went over with my mum to bring back his body. I remember going to the funeral parlour in France and being given a laminated menu of coffins, and thinking, surely there is an ice cream at the back of here!
Rachel Joyce

Meaning of "funeral parlour" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FUNERAL PARLOUR

funeral parlour play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FUNERAL PARLOUR

noun
adjective
verb
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Funeral parlour is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FUNERAL PARLOUR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

funeral parlour

Funeral home

A funeral home, funeral parlor or mortuary, is a business that provides burial and funeral services for the dead and their families. These services may include a prepared wake and funeral, and the provision of a chapel for the funeral.

Definition of funeral parlour in the English dictionary

The definition of funeral parlour in the dictionary is a place where the dead are prepared for burial or cremation Usual US name: funeral home.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FUNERAL PARLOUR

funebre
funebrial
funemployment
Funen
funeral
funeral director
funeral home
funeral march
funeral oration
funeral procession
funeral pyre
funeral service
funerary
funereal
funereally
funest
funfair
funfest
fungal

WORDS THAT END LIKE FUNERAL PARLOUR

beauty parlour
beer parlour
bicolour
colour
cornflour
eye colour
flour
gram flour
hair colour
ice-cream parlour
massage parlour
milking parlour
multicolour
parlour
pizza parlour
secondary colour
valour
velour
watercolour
wheat flour

Synonyms and antonyms of funeral parlour in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «funeral parlour» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FUNERAL PARLOUR

Find out the translation of funeral parlour to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of funeral parlour from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «funeral parlour» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

殡仪馆
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pompas fúnebres
570 millions of speakers

English

funeral parlour
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अंतिम संस्कार पार्लर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قَاعَةٌ لإعْدَادِ الـمُتَوَفَّى
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

бюро похоронных услуг
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

casa funerária
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দাখিল করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

funérarium
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ruang tamu pengebumian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Leichenhalle
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

葬儀場
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

영안실
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ruang tamu pemakaman
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhà tang lễ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இறுதிச் சடங்கு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दफन पार्लर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Cenaze evi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

onoranze funebri
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dom pogrzebowy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

похоронне бюро
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

servicii de pompe funebre
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

γραφείο κηδειών
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

begrafnisondernemer
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

begravningsentreprenör
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

begravelsesbyrå
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of funeral parlour

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FUNERAL PARLOUR»

The term «funeral parlour» is regularly used and occupies the 102.899 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FUNERAL PARLOUR» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «funeral parlour» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «funeral parlour» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about funeral parlour

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2 QUOTES WITH «FUNERAL PARLOUR»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word funeral parlour.
1
Rachel Joyce
My father died in France, and my sisters and I went over with my mum to bring back his body. I remember going to the funeral parlour in France and being given a laminated menu of coffins, and thinking, surely there is an ice cream at the back of here!
2
Gavin MacLeod
I checked myself out in that funeral parlour scene. I saw myself laughing, because there was a shot of Ed and I together and Mary was right in back of us. My head turned from the camera and I saw myself laughing, because Mary was absolutely brilliant in that thing.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FUNERAL PARLOUR»

Discover the use of funeral parlour in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to funeral parlour and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Lazarus Funeral Parlour
As the Dominee’s church runs empty and the Reverend’s tent fills up, a new disaster strikes: the Lazarus Funeral Parlour. Here, the Reverend Grant raises the stakes by raising the dead.
Pamela Oberem, 2011
2
Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth-century Australia: War, ...
The hearse was a sky blue station wagon, which carried the cheapest coffin made of veneered particle-board at a cost of $62.80. Russell offered none of the usual frills, including funeral parlour, mortuary, embalming, viewing room and chapel.
Patricia Jalland, 2006
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Invisible Population: The Place of the Dead in East Asian ...
Funeral parlours in Korea as of June 2006 Total Administration type Category Daily storage capacity of corpses Directly managed Rented Hospital funeral parlour Ordinary funeral parlour 785 399 386 570 215 6,183 Source: Ministry of Health ...
Natacha Aveline-Dubach, 2012
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When Justice Fails: Now I Lay Me Down My Heart
There seems to be some misinformation regarding the reasons for a closed casket of my brother This letter will outline our information, and we would like your perception and some facts ofwhat actually took place at the funeral parlour In ...
Dr. Bonnie Clark Douglass, 2014
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Dirt: New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination
Before looking specifically at the practices of maintenance and contain- ment within the funeral home I want briefly to explore the transformation of the funeral parlour to the funeral 'home'. This helps set the backdrop for exploring how the idea ...
Ben Campkin, Rosie Cox, 2007
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Representations of Death: A Social Psychological Perspective
There seems little evidence that people conduct much market research before choosing a funeral parlour. The widows I interviewed either relied on recommendations or picked the nearest high street firm. Not one of my informants rang two or ...
Mary Bradbury, 2012
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People of Skies
Some mourners stood on the footpath, shouting for no one's benefit in particular, except, maybe, to inform the world about the goings-on in Ghould's Funeral Parlour. Some of the bystanders asked politely why the people were so angry.
Jeremy Wohlers, 1969
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The Collected Works of Christopher Paw 1967-2004: Assembled ...
Dimitri's Funeral Parlour and Souvlaki Palace was on the opposite end of Goose Lake from our farm. Dimitri was a first generation Greek immigrant who had passed through Goose Lake on his way to Vancouver, when he noticed that we had ...
Joff Evans & Murray Leaning, 2009
9
The polemics of Ageing as reflected in Literatures. Essays ...
The transitional effect created by advanced age is underlined through the synaesthetic opposition between the smell “of birth” that Don Hernando recalls in his cante hondo (200) and the atmosphere conveyed through the funeral parlour used ...
Maria Vidal Grau, Núria Casado Gual (eds.)
10
Let This Be Our Secret
Trevor stayed at the funeral parlour, but it was nothing to do with procedures, or post-mortems. ... Buchanans were prepared to let the issue of the funeral parlour go, they could not agree to Hazel's proposition – endorsed, it seemed, by those in  ...
Deric Henderson, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FUNERAL PARLOUR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term funeral parlour is used in the context of the following news items.
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Talking about dying won't kill you, Palliative Care Australia says
... coming out of the closet, out from behind the screens, out from the specialised confines of the funeral parlour, even out from around the roses, ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
2
Transformation of Monarch
Just by the post office and the old beer garden, across the road coming from the funeral parlour sits the offices of the Monarch Community ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
3
Baby Thulisile: no arrests
“I am very thankful for the funeral parlour for the services they are offering.” Mandlakhe says he is no longer with Thulisile's mom, 16, and only ... «Independent Online, Jul 15»
4
Third funeral parlour to set up shop
After a 60-year two hearse race in Whangarei, a third funeral parlour is looking to set up shop on Bank St. The Auckland-based Haven Falls ... «Northern Advocate, Jul 15»
5
Tales from the Crypt: Killed by a jilted lover
And it was a small group of friends and past acquaintances who gathered in the funeral parlour of Messrs Winks and Hall to formally identify the ... «Auckland stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»
6
Wimbledon 2Day “evolves” back to basics and all is now right with …
Gone is the weird provincial nightclub/funeral parlour set, host Claire Balding and her guests are sitting comfortably in proper chairs behind a ... «Radio Times, Jul 15»
7
Nora Anne Heffernan nee Greaney
Gortacleva, Bushypark and formerly of Aille an Phreachain, Furbo. Reposing at the O'Flaherty Funeral Parlour, Munster Ave this evening from 5 ... «Galway Bay FM, Jul 15»
8
Management teams ignore the need to train and retrain staff
The funeral parlour cannot bury without the death certificate, but they were able to access it online and provide me the ten original copies I paid ... «Stabroek News, Jul 15»
9
The long goodbye: confronting death
... following the Dalai Lama, meditate on their finitude, Doughty knocked on the door of a Californian funeral parlour at the age of 23 and asked ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
10
Arrest in KZN mortuary mutilations
Durban - Police have arrested a 53-year-old man in connection with the mutilation of the bodies of two women at a Durban funeral parlour. «Independent Online, Jul 15»

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