mourner's seat

English

Noun

mourner's seat (plural mourner's seats)

  1. mourners' bench
    • 1845, Johnson Jones Hooper, Adventures Of Captain Simon Suggs:
      "And then," continued Suggs, "I wanted to git off, but they hilt me, and bimeby I felt so missuble, I had to go yonder" -- pointing to the mourners' seat.
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