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6 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun box in which a corpse is buried or cremated
verb place into a coffin
originFrom Middle English coffyn, from Old Northern French cofin (“sarcophagus", earlier "basket, coffer”), from Latin cophinus (“basket”), a loanword from Ancient Greek κόφινος (kóphinos, “a basket”). Doublet of coffer. Displaced native Old English þrūh.
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