Deathbox

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    coffin nonstandard

    "Once he was asleep again, they brought him back again, bound him, sealed him in his deathbox, muffled the World from him with a black, black pall."

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"Once he was asleep again, they brought him back again, bound him, sealed him in his deathbox, muffled the World from him with a black, black pall."

Etymology

From death + box. Compare Dutch doodskist (literally “death-chest”).

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