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UK
/sˈɛnəʊtˌæf/
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NOUN
- a monument built to honor people whose remains are interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered
How To Use cenotaph In A Sentence
- I noticed with deep regret when I visited my home town of Winnipeg after 5 years that the Canadian red ensign that once flew alongside the current flag and the provincial flag at the cenotaph has now been replaced by another Manitoban flag. The Red Ensign has no
- He laughs, leans back in the squashy sofa in his Whitehall office, overlooking the Cenotaph war memorial, and refuses to confirm or deny the story.
- A cenotaph is a memorial built to one who is buried elsewhere. The Literary World Seventh Reader
- I have laid a wreath at the Cenotaph in Belfast to commemorate the British war dead.
- Here also were two cenotaphs in the center of the room, this time covered with a polished chunam, a lime plaster that had been dyed yellow with limestone. Shadow Princess
- They will be joined by Guides, Brownies, Scouts and Cubs for a parade to the Cenotaph, where they will be joined by the parish council for a short service.
- The cenotaphs offered commemoration when what was needed - then and now - was reconciliation.
- A procession led by the Lord Mayor, Coun Roy Walters made its way from the town hall to the cenotaph in St Peter's Square where a memorial service took place.
- After the main ceremony in the school, the colour guard of RCMP and Rangers marched to the cenotaph in Victory Gardens, where they set the wreathes around the monument and sang the National Anthem.
- I'd expected to see looted shops, broken glass, and a lot of mess, but it really was shocking to see the Cenotaph, a memorial to Britain's war-dead, daubed with graffiti.