burying ground
See also: burying-ground
English
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Noun
burying ground (plural burying grounds)
- (now rare) A burial ground; a graveyard or cemetery.
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, “The memoirs of a lady of quality”, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC, page 143:
- [H]is lordſhip had changed his mind about going to Flanders, but expected to meet him, on ſuch a day and hour, in the burying-ground near Red-lion-ſquare.
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