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Cenotaph
noun
A monument erected to honour the dead whose bodies lie elsewhere; especially members of the armed forces who died in battle.
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Sinn Féin has previously boycotted November's remembrance events in Northern Ireland owing to the association with the British military, although past mayors have laid wreaths at the city hall cenotaph to mark the 1 July anniversary of the battle of the Somme.
Only 26 feet (8 metres) behind the temple of Seti I is a remarkable structure known as the Osireion, which is thought to be Seti's cenotaph.
Some pharaohs of the Middle and New kingdoms had a cenotaph or a mortuary temple at Abydos.
In a series of projects for public monuments, culminating in the design (1784) for an immense sphere that would serve as a cenotaph honouring the British physicist Isaac Newton, Boullée gave imaginary form to his theories.
The city of Lashkar contains many palaces and the cenotaph of the rani of Jhansi.
The interior of the cenotaph was to be a hollow globe representing the universe.
Inlaid cloisonné jewelry reached an especially high standard of workmanship in Britain, as is shown by a purse lid, a sword, and jewelry from the cenotaph (monument honouring a dead person whose body lies elsewhere) to a 7th-century East Anglian king discovered at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk (British Museum).
#RemembranceSunday That lefty Corbyn was the only one not to bow his head when he put down the wreath on the cenotaph, really is a disgrace to the lab party.
One of their most popular targets is the cenotaph at the heart of the holiday village, dedicated to the memory of "the youth of all nations who fell that war might end, by the boys of the South Wales coalfield".
It is not for nothing that veterans of the Great War disrupted cenotaph ceremonies in the 1920's, complaining that much was being made of the dead – who conveniently, politicians have noticed, cannot answer back – while the living suffered on.
When Queen Victoria paid for the restoration of Margaret's tomb in Dumferline, it was probably therefore the restoration of a cenotaph.
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