corpse : Idioms & Phrases
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Corpse candle
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(a) A thick candle formerly used at a lich wake, or the customary watching with a corpse on the night before its interment.(b) A luminous appearance, resembling the flame of a candle, sometimes seen in churchyards and other damp places, superstitiously regarded as portending death.
Webster 1913
Corpse gate
- the gate of a burial place through which the dead are carried, often having a covered porch; called also
lich gate .