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Synonyms for embalmer
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : em-bahm |
Phonetic Transcription : ɛmˈbɑm |
Définition of embalmer
Origin :- mid-14c., from Middle French embaumer "preserve (a corpse) with spices," from en- "in" (see en- (1)) + baume "balm" (see balm) + -er verbal suffix. The -l- inserted in English 1500s in imitation of Latin. Related: Embalmed; embalming.
- As in mortician : noun undertaker
- As in undertaker : noun funeral director
- As in funeral director : noun someone who arranges funerals
- The action of the air had already undone all the art of the embalmer.
- Extract from : « The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Tales » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- A few minutes later the embalmer entered bringing them food.
- Extract from : « The Cat of Bubastes » by G. A. Henty
- I have already placed in the hands of Chigron, the embalmer, a large sum of money.
- Extract from : « The Cat of Bubastes » by G. A. Henty
- “I think, indeed, that that will be the best plan,” the embalmer agreed.
- Extract from : « The Cat of Bubastes » by G. A. Henty
- "He has gone to his work in the house of the embalmer," was the answer.
- Extract from : « Uarda, Complete » by Georg Ebers
- You open the corpses, you go in and out of the house of the embalmer.
- Extract from : « Uarda, Complete » by Georg Ebers
- The face (which had been left by the embalmer exposed) confronted mine.
- Extract from : « Theodore Watts-Dunton » by James Douglas
- On examination it was found that the work of the embalmer had been most thorough.
- Extract from : « The Comstock Club » by Charles Carroll Goodwin
- They were given to us by an embalmer of the dead who had found them in a tomb.
- Extract from : « Miscellanies » by Oscar Wilde
- Babies with lintels, grains of corn or shoe-buttons up their noses, purple in the face and waiting for the doctor or the embalmer.
- Extract from : « A Book of Burlesques » by H. L. Mencken
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