funeral door

英語（米国） (en-US) 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

名詞

アメリカ英語

(US, architecture) a door to the hall or foyer from the parlor to allow for the movement of caskets; from the time when the wealthy would host their wakes and funerals in their own homes. It is a supplementary door to the main doors of the front parlor. The funeral door existed to allow for the dead to move through doors without needing to use the doorways used by the living.

日本語の意味

（米国建築用語）遺体や棺を運ぶために設けられた補助的な扉。これは、裕福な家庭が自宅で葬儀や通夜を行っていた時に、死者専用の動線として使用されたもので、主な玄関とは別の入口として設けられていました。

英語の意味

(US, architecture) a door to the hall or foyer from the parlor to allow for the movement of caskets; from the time when the wealthy would host their wakes and funerals in their own homes. It is a supplementary door to the main doors of the front parlor. The funeral door existed to allow for the dead to move through doors without needing to use the doorways used by the living.

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During the wake, the undertaker opened the funeral door so the casket could be carried out through the foyer.

通夜の間、葬儀屋は客間と玄関をつなぐ、棺を運び出すための扉を開けた。

詳細

意味（1）

(US, architecture) a door to the hall or foyer from the parlor to allow for the movement of caskets; from the time when the wealthy would host their wakes and funerals in their own homes. It is a supplementary door to the main doors of the front parlor. The funeral door existed to allow for the dead to move through doors without needing to use the doorways used by the living.

funeral doors （ plural ）