confining

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The Princess played upon their ignorance of English customs and burial rites to pretend that the work of coffining must be done by women’s hands.

From The International Spy Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War by Upward, Allen

He was engaged in his preparations for coffining Mme. de Lamotte, when a female creditor knocked insistently at the door.

From A Book of Remarkable Criminals by Irving, Henry Brodribb

As Pym walked along the beach, he saw with surprise a thin curl of smoke rising behind an angle of the hillside not far from the scene of his coffining.

From White Fire by Oxenham, John

Oh, I want to get out of their coffining rooms, I want to walk free with a man, A man who has lived and dared And swung through the cycle of life!

From Open Water by Stringer, Arthur

Yes, they telled him," Tommy replied, "and he said a queer thing; he said, 'Jean Myles is dead, I was at her coffining.'

From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)