(n.) The principal stone in a foundation; the chief or corner stone.
(n.) The stone at the head of a grave.
Example Sentences:
(1) Oscar Wilde's grave in Paris has put up with a lot in its first century - the flying angel headstone has been castrated (twice), commemorative candles have scorched the front, and multilingual graffiti are regularly scrawled over the tomb.
(2) Today there is only the headstone, inscribed with an Islamic star and crescent, standing among dozens of Christian crosses of other veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan in the cemetery’s section 60, the plot called “the saddest acre in America”.
(3) His grave lies in Arlington national cemetery , where silent rows of headstones on rolling hills mark the final resting place for more than 400,000 service members, veterans and their families stretching back to the civil war.
(4) Before 2008, she and her husband ran a 100-year-old family business making headstones.
(5) Photograph: Andrew Fox Harkamel Sahota used her second loan from My Home Finance to cover part of the cost of her son's headstone.
(6) When discretionary costs such as probate, headstones and flowers are added, the total cost of dying has risen faster than inflation and now stands at £7,622 – an increase of 7.1% on 2012.
(7) Israel is waiting for you with open arms.” But the French prime minister, Manuel Valls – who was speaking after several hundred Jewish headstones were vandalised at a cemetery in eastern France – said that he regretted Netanyahu’s call, noting that the Israeli prime minister was “in the midst of a general election campaign”.
(8) Casestudy: The single mother who borrowed for her baby's headstone Harkamel Sahota applying for a loan.
(9) I wish I’d spent more time at the office” are words few would carve on their headstones • Andrew Simms is author of Cancel The Apocalypse: The New Path To Prosperity, published by Little Brown at £13.99 on 28 February.
(10) Thousands of precisely trimmed rose and rosemary bushes, plaques and headstones are set in an ocean of lawn, surrounding a constantly exhaling redbrick crematorium.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Headstones on the graves of children who died from the Ebola virus at a cemetery for victims in Waterloo, south of the Sierra Leonean capital, Freetown.
(12) But Jackamoe Buzzell, a fan of the show who organised the event, complete with real headstone and a fleet of black limousines, was undeterred.
(13) "Each one of them deserves a headstone with his name on it," she said.
(14) Harry Collett got so tired of being asked the same question that he had a stonemason make up a false headstone – and had it placed at a suitable location on his walk.
(15) The Telegraph opted for the most funereal of all front pages choosing a headstone-style front page with a full length photograph of Thatcher on a black background and the simple headline "Margaret Thatcher 1925-2013".
(16) The names on the headstones were written in chalk and some had been washed away.
(17) A headstone in the flooded graveyard in Moorland, Somerset.
(18) The headstone is as humble as Maclean's – intentionally humble ("He trusted in God and tried to do the right") with a bronze plaque nearby advertising its humility by pointing out that it no way differs from the hundreds of thousands of other headstones "placed in many lands over his comrades who fell in the Great War".
(19) Her father is buried nearby; white butterflies flutter among the Islamic headstones; a light breeze blows.
(20) Fresh flowers appeared this week at the simple marble headstone of Humayun Khan, an American Muslim killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq in 2004.
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Definition:
(n.) A large stone set upright in olden times as a memorial or monument. Many, of unknown date, are found in Brittany and throughout Northern Europe.
Example Sentences:
(1) The days when Asterix could be mined for sly political in-jokes, and a thinly disguised Jacques Chirac flitted between Obelix's menhirs, are past.