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

Example sentences :

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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