mourner's seat
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]mourner's seat (plural mourner's seats)
- 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.