Definitions
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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
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The lychgate of a field showed Father Conmee breadths of cabbages, curtseying to him with ample underleaves.
Ulysses 2003
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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βHe could wait outside the lychgate,β I offered, but it was no use.
To Say Nothing of the Dog Willis, Connie 1997
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Sheila Wexford put an Umbrella up and made an elegant dash towards I | he - lychgate.
Put On By Cunning Rendell, Ruth, 1930- 1981
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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
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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
brtom commented on the word lychgate
The lychgate of a field showed Father Conmee breadths of cabbages, curtseying to him with ample underleaves.
Joyce, Ulysses, 10
January 7, 2007