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A pall (also called mortcloth or casket saddle) is a cloth that covers a casket or coffin at funerals. [1] The word comes from the Latin pallium (cloak), through Old English . [ 2 ] A pall or palla is also a stiffened square card covered with white linen , usually embroidered with a cross or some other appropriate symbol.
A shop window display of coffins at a Polish funeral director's office A casket showroom in Billings, Montana, depicting split lid coffins. A coffin is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, for either burial or cremation. Coffins are sometimes referred to as caskets, particularly in American English.
After the deceased has been dressed, they are generally placed in their coffin or casket. In American English, the word coffin is used to refer to an anthropoid (stretched hexagonal) form, whereas casket refers specifically to a rectangular coffin. It is common for photographs, notes, cards, and favourite personal items to be placed in the ...
Casket most often refers to: Coffin , a box used for the display of corpses at wakes and funerals and for interment Casket (decorative box) , a decorated container, usually larger than about 10 centimetres (4 inches) in width and length, but smaller than a "chest"
An Italian jewelry casket, 1857, carved walnut, lined with red velvet A casket [ 1 ] is a decorative box or container that is usually smaller than a chest and is typically decorated. In recent centuries they are often used as boxes for jewelry, but in earlier periods they were also used for keeping important documents and many other purposes. [ 2 ]
Viewing (museum display) Museum of Funeral Customs. In death customs, a viewing (sometimes referred to as reviewal, calling hours, funeral visitation in the United States and Canada) is the time that family and friends come to see the deceased before the funeral, once the body has been prepared by a funeral home. [1]
A bier is a stand on which a corpse, coffin, or casket containing a corpse is placed to lie in state or to be carried to the grave or mausoleum in a cemetery. If a funeral service is followed by cremation, the coffin or casket would be transported to a crematorium or crematory. In some cases, ashes inside an urn are placed into a columbarium.
Pallbearers carrying the casket of Major Douglas A. Zembiec of the United States Marine Corps. A pallbearer is one of several participants who help carry the casket at a funeral. They may wear white gloves in order to prevent damaging the casket and to show respect to the deceased person.