casket

ataúd, féretro

Caja donde se coloca a una persona fallecida para el funeral o el entierro.

En inglés sencillo: A box in which a dead person is placed for a funeral or burial.

• Flowers lay on the casket.
• They carried her casket into the church.
• The family chose a simple wooden casket.

Sinónimos: coffin

Expresiones frecuentes: wooden casket, open casket, carry a casket

cofre, joyero

Caja pequeña, a menudo decorada, para guardar objetos valiosos, como joyas.

En inglés sencillo: A small, often decorated box for keeping valuable things such as jewellery.

• Her rings were in a casket.
• He opened the little silver casket.
• The carved casket held a necklace and two old coins.

Sinónimos: jewel box

Expresiones frecuentes: jewel casket, silver casket, small casket

poner en un ataúd, guardar en un cofre

Guardar algo en un pequeño cofre o colocar un cadáver en un ataúd.

En inglés sencillo: To put something in a small valuable box, or a dead body in a burial box.

• They casketed the jewels carefully.
• The undertaker casketed the body before the funeral.
• The remains were casketed for burial.

Expresiones frecuentes: casket the remains, casket a body