casket

cercueil

Caisse dans laquelle on place une personne morte pour les funérailles ou l’enterrement.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : coffin

Expressions courantes : wooden casket, open casket, carry a casket

coffret

Petite boîte, souvent décorée, servant à conserver des objets précieux, comme des bijoux.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : jewel box

Expressions courantes : jewel casket, silver casket, small casket

mettre en bière, mettre dans un coffret

Placer un objet dans un coffret ou un corps dans un cercueil.

En anglais simple : 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.

Expressions courantes : casket the remains, casket a body