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  • noun a roofed gate to a churchyard, formerly used as a temporary shelter for the bier during funerals

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Examples

  • The lychgate of a field showed Father Conmee breadths of cabbages, curtseying to him with ample underleaves.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Before long he found that there would be no sea this way: nor anything but shops, houses, a cinema with an imposing Victorian front grandly labelled ASSEMBLY ROOMS, and the slate-roofed lychgate of a church.

    Greenwitch Susan Cooper 2002

  • Before long he found that there would be no sea this way: nor anything but shops, houses, a cinema with an imposing Victorian front grandly labelled ASSEMBLY ROOMS, and the slate-roofed lychgate of a church.

    Greenwitch Susan Cooper 2002

  • Before long he found that there would be no sea this way: nor anything but shops, houses, a cinema with an imposing Victorian front grandly labelled ASSEMBLY ROOMS, and the slate-roofed lychgate of a church.

    Greenwitch Susan Cooper 2002

  • Before long he found that there would be no sea this way: nor anything but shops, houses, a cinema with an imposing Victorian front grandly labelled ASSEMBLY ROOMS, and the slate-roofed lychgate of a church.

    The Grey King Susan Cooper 2001

  • Before long he found that there would be no sea this way: nor anything but shops, houses, a cinema with an imposing Victorian front grandly labelled ASSEMBLY ROOMS, and the slate-roofed lychgate of a church.

    The Grey King Susan Cooper 2001

  • β€œHe could wait outside the lychgate,” I offered, but it was no use.

    To Say Nothing of the Dog Willis, Connie 1997

  • Sheila Wexford put an Umbrella up and made an elegant dash towards I | he - lychgate.

    Put On By Cunning Rendell, Ruth, 1930- 1981

  • By the time I had trotted back, cursing most foully, the rest of the chase was thundering up; Bismarck was waiting at the lychgate looking cool and smug when we arrived.

    Royal Flash Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1970

  • Mark had paused as a matter of course by the lychgate, supposing that with a squire like Sir Charles the inside should be of unusual interest.

    The Altar Steps Compton MacKenzie 1927

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  • The lychgate of a field showed Father Conmee breadths of cabbages, curtseying to him with ample underleaves.

    Joyce, Ulysses, 10

    January 7, 2007