pallbearer

noun

pall·bear·er ˈpȯl-ˌber-ər

: a person who helps to carry the coffin at a funeral

also : a member of the escort or honor guard of the coffin who does not actually help to carry it

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Inside Liam Payne’s troubled life after One Direction Nov. 1, 2024 Four pallbearers carried the coffin from the church after the funeral and they were followed by Payne’s parents and Cole. —

Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024 Four pallbearers brought the casket inside the church, as attendees looked on. —

Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2024 Through photos and letters, the duo learned that the ornate sculpture had been made to commemorate the hats that Felder and the other pallbearers left at Kennedy’s grave. —

Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024 So on Thursday, when a sea of green t-shirts poured out at the pace of pallbearers onto the Coliseum’s pedestrian bridge following the A’s final day in Oakland, there was no sign of Bobbitt, who’d left hours earlier. —

Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for pallbearer