Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A roofed gateway to a churchyard used originally as a resting place for a bier before burial.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An archaic spelling of
lich-gate .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A churchyard
gateway with a roof, under which a corpse was laid during a funeral to await the arrival of the clergyman.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A document appears in a plastic sleeve pinned to the wooden stump that once supported a lych-gate.
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It got him toddling again, though, and I guided our expedition through the medieval lych-gate, into the churchyard.
Slaying is Such Sweet Sorrow Patricia Harwin 2005
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The gate was massive, with supporting towers and a sloping roof like that of a lych-gate.
Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005
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‘I myself and Sir Frederick Leighton are the greatest decorative artists of the age’, was among his sayings, and to show that he at any rate knew nothing of discouragement a great lych-gate, bought from some country churchyard, reared its thatched roof, meant to shelter bearers and coffin, above the entrance to his front garden.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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‘I myself and Sir Frederick Leighton are the greatest decorative artists of the age’, was among his sayings, and to show that he at any rate knew nothing of discouragement a great lych-gate, bought from some country churchyard, reared its thatched roof, meant to shelter bearers and coffin, above the entrance to his front garden.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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‘I myself and Sir Frederick Leighton are the greatest decorative artists of the age’, was among his sayings, and to show that he at any rate knew nothing of discouragement a great lych-gate, bought from some country churchyard, reared its thatched roof, meant to shelter bearers and coffin, above the entrance to his front garden.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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‘I myself and Sir Frederick Leighton are the greatest decorative artists of the age’, was among his sayings, and to show that he at any rate knew nothing of discouragement a great lych-gate, bought from some country churchyard, reared its thatched roof, meant to shelter bearers and coffin, above the entrance to his front garden.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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They went through the lych-gate into the churchyard proper and picked their way round the lichen-covered headstones.
Dreaming of the Bones Deborah Crombie 1997
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Fergus opened his mouth, brows arched skyward, then shut it again and turned without a word toward the black opening of the lych-gate, whence Jamie had disappeared.
Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997
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"For Gavin's sake, " he said, and turned away toward the lych-gate.
Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997
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