The word "epitaph" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used to refer to a phrase or statement written in memory of a deceased person, usually inscribed on a tombstone. For example, "On the tombstone was an epitaph that read: 'Gone but never forgotten.'".
Lord Mason of Barnsley, as he became in 1987, would have loved the epitaph.
Joking that it was an epitaph to be proud of, Marr said that Tsiolkas is the best writer about masturbation in contemporary literature (it figures a lot in Barracuda, including a pivotal scene).
Anyway, his description of his position then stands as a description of his career, and its epitaph.
A resounding mandate for such a vision at the polls would be a fitting political epitaph for the late laughing Cavalier of Lib Dem politics.
He died at 37 and will never have a proper epitaph until a cure is finally found for the disease that bears his name.
Otherwise he will end up with an epitaph as sad as those of his illustrious predecessors.
There lies a Scottish ship's boy who died in the early years of the 19th century "from the effects of a fall into the hold," according to his epitaph.
Yet surely better still is the simple epitaph of Anne Long, buried in nearby Bradford-on-Avon in 1601,...whose knowne good lyfe sho-weth that God hath taken her sowleto his mercye or that of Mary Gardner, buried in 1794 at Rogate, in Sussex:She was what?
A Hampshire epitaph, of 1750-1800 maybe, talks of a s'teaned grave.
And in 1794 the Hampshire Chronicle described a vault at Leigh (presumably Eastleigh, in that county) wherein lay Mary Ellis, who wasa virgin of virtuous courage, andvery promising hopes, and died the3d of June 1609 aged 119The teeth of timeSuch trivia are the joys of the true epitaph-collector.
"Painting a picture of a word is my way of etching it in stone, of making it absolutely official, almost like an epitaph .In some cases there is more to it.
