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A coffin (in North American English, also known as a casket) is a funerary box used in the display and containment of deceased remains -- either for burial or after cremation.
The word comes ultimately from Greek kophinos, a basket. In English, the word wasn't used in a funeral sense until the 1500s.
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Any box used to bury the dead in is a coffin. Use of the word "casket" in this sense is a North American euphemism, introduced by the undertaker's trade; a "casket" properly so called is in fact a box for jewellery. * Some Americans draw a distinction between "coffins" and "caskets"; for these people, a coffin is a tapered hexagonal or octagonal box used for a burial. A rectangular burial box with a split lid used for viewing the deceased is called a "casket" as seen in the picture above. More on [ Coffin ]
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Coffin - Family history of Judith M Oxholm Villafañe and James F Coffin. Surnames include Mulligan, Oxholm and Lopez.
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Coffin - Family of Geroge Jarvis Coffin Jnr of Hancock, NH USA. Includes the surnames Geer, Raven, Jerauld and Porter.
Coffin - Tracing the family lines of Joanne Farnocchia Figone Coffin. Includes the surnames Baca, Farnocchia, Petrini, Serafini, Stefanini, Digrazia, Figone, Bargagliotti and Delucca.
Coffin Family - Ancestral history of the Mushero and Coffin lineages as compiled by Stanley Carlton Coffin of Millinocket, Maine USA.
Coffin Tribe - History of the Coffin/Barter and Mitchell/Dolham families from the Waldoboro area in Maine, USA. Compiled by Darcy Coffin.
Coffin, Davison and Parkhurst Family Trees - Upstate NY lineages as compiled by Scott and Zondra Coffin. Includes pedigree, photographs and related links.
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