cenotaph

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cenotaph a monument to someone buried elsewhere, especially one commemorating people who died in a war; the Cenotaph is the name of the war memorial in Whitehall, London, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and erected in 1919–20. The word is recorded from the early 17th century and comes ultimately, via French and late Latin, from Greek kenos ‘empty’ + taphos ‘tomb’.

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