funeral parlor
Noun
Meaning
a mortuary where those who knew the deceased can come to pay their last respects
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Examples
All the police are going to get me for is running a funeral parlor without a license.
If I become president, I advise you people to put up several funeral parlor businesses because I am against illegal drugs... I might kill someone because of it.
A funeral home in Islip, NY A former funeral home in Seattle, WA Columbia Funeral Home in Seattle, WA A funeral home, funeral parlor or mortuary, is a business that provides interment and funeral services for the dead and their families.
It was said that a Joe Bonanno-owned funeral parlor in Brooklyn was utilized as a convenient front for disposing of bodies: the funeral home's clients were provided with double—decker coffins, and more than one body would be buried at once.
With an unheated Model T Ford bought off a funeral parlor and five of the best black basketball players he could find, Saperstein barnstormed the Midwest, playing local all-white bush-league teams for meager gate earnings.
The local funeral parlor was called Owens and Brumley, so he'd named the puppies Owens and Brumley.