Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Suitable to a hearse, and hence to a funeral.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Suitable to a funeral.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
hearse .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A white hearselike car follows them and I figure that must be the South Bristol vamp squad.
Slayed Amanda Marrone 2010
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He heard the car doors close and the engine rumble as the living ghost of the old Town sank into his black, hearselike Continental and cruised away.
The Town Chuck Hogan 2004
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A Quakeress could have found no fault with this costume, which placed in grotesque and ridiculous contrast the hearselike trappings of the other women.
The Cross of Berny Jules Sandeau 1847
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The hearselike back end is also pretty useful when it comes to swallowing luggage.
Motoring 2009
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a relic from the castle, when its antique furniture was set up to public sale, was hung with faded tapestry, and above its dark and polished summit were hearselike and heavy trappings.
Eugene Aram — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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