Coffin
container, generally rectangular with a lock, for jewelry or trinkets
A coffin is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, for either burial or cremation.
Coffins are sometimes referred to as caskets, particularly in American English. Any box in which the dead are buried is a coffin, and while a casket was originally regarded as a box for jewelry, use of the word "casket" in this sense began as a euphemism introduced by the undertaker's trade. A distinction is commonly drawn between "coffins" and "caskets", using "coffin" to refer to a tapered hexagonal or octagonal (also considered to be anthropoidal in shape) box and "casket" to refer to a rectangular box, often with a split lid used for viewing the deceased.
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Quotes
edit- I'll have your mama picking out your casket, bastard.
- 50 Cent, "What Up Gangsta" (2003), Get Rich or Die Tryin'
- A mother cries; another son lies in a casket. Life was fun while it lasted.
- Eazy-E, "Any Last Werdz" (5 November 1993), It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa, California: Ruthless Records
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