coffin

cercueil

Longue caisse dans laquelle on place le corps d’une personne morte pour l’enterrer.

En anglais simple : A long box in which a dead person’s body is placed for burial.

• They carried the coffin into the church.
• Flowers covered the wooden coffin.
• The coffin was lowered into the grave.

Synonymes : casket

Expressions courantes : wooden coffin, carry a coffin, coffin lid

mettre en bière

Placer le corps d’une personne morte dans un cercueil pour l’enterrer.

En anglais simple : To put a dead person’s body into a box for burial.

• They coffined the body before dawn.
• The undertaker carefully coffined the remains.
• The dead were coffined and buried together.

Synonymes : encoffin

Expressions courantes : coffin the body, coffin someone, coffin the remains