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Meanings of chief mourners in English

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Usage of chief mourners in English
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The chief mourners were in seclusion in the library of the Academy.
The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq. / Composed f...
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At his funeral the poor of Bristol were the chief mourners.
Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers
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The chief mourners arrived in a fleet of black stretch limousines.
The Irish Times
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The three chief mourners were: Brahms-whocarried a laurel wreath from the wife-Joachimand Dietrich.
The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians
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Yet there she was, a tragic Ophelia in six-inch heels, tottering above the chief mourners.
The Irish Times
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The chief mourners were his three sisters, Olive, Mary and Josephine, and his brother Enda.
The Irish Times
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Mr. Parslow and the cook were among the chief mourners and sat in the Jerusalem chamber.
Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. / A Weekly Jou...
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Coupeau and Lorilleux, in frock coats and with their hats in their hands, were chief mourners.
L'Assommoir
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He is laid out by one of the chief mourners in the narrator's best white shirt.
The Irish Times
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Her father and her brother William were chief mourners, and eight of her more immediate relatives followed.
Grace Darling, Heroine of the Farne Islands
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The chief mourners were the Rev.
Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle
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The chief mourners were his widow Sarah, daughters Mary and Geraldine, sons Laur, Michael and Richard, and grandchildren.
The Irish Times
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They go through life as if each day were a new big funeral, and they were always chief mourners.
The Majesty of Calmness; individual problems and posibilities
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The body was placed in the choir, and at the head were arranged, on chairs, the chief mourners and executors.
The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq. / Composed f...
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My Uncle Toby, with young Le Fevre in his hand, attended the poor lieutenant as chief mourners to his grave.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction
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One would think all these graves had just been made, and that all these people were chief mourners for the dead.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12...
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