cenotaph
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The word "cenotaph" means "empty tomb" in Greek and it was designed by the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens in a simple, austere style, with no sense of triumphalism and with almost no decoration.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
The two minute silence was observed and then politicians, dignitaries and military personnel began the wreath laying at the cenotaph.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2025
In the square leading to the cenotaph, relatives and friends have written the names and ages of the disaster's 57 victims in red paint.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025
The cenotaph "is not a billboard for claims, however respectable they may be," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025
On the tomb of Voltaire, now a cenotaph, in the vaults of the Pantheon, is an inscription, “Il défendit Calas, Sirven, De la Barre, et Montbailly.”
From History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion by Adam Storey Farrar
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