epitaphs in English

noun
1
a phrase or statement written in memory of a person who has died, especially as an inscription on a tombstone.
This might be recorded on their tombstone as an epitaph or in an obituary, commemoration portrait, or in some cases a biography.
synonyms:elegycommemorationobituaryinscriptionlegend
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1. Or, more specifically, on epitaphs on tombstones.

2. Historical researches on the epitaphs have attracted many specialists of epigraphy and historians.

3. Contemporary locomotives are carved on their headstones, which also bear nauseating rhyming epitaphs of the kind so beloved by the Victorians.

4. Such evidence . . . is seen in the many epitaphs, anaphorae, litanies, liturgical documents, acts of the martyrs, and in the frequent allusions encountered in Oriental, Greek, and Latin patristic literature.”

5. In his Anthology of the Middle State, his strong sense of tragic consciousness scintillate through the lives of poets, epitaphs and poems, telling us his internal solitude and pains.

6. Adorsed References in periodicals archive ? Some of the most important steles from the Second Turk Empire, including the epitaphs of Kul Tegin and Bilga Qaghan, include turtle bases, and both also are topped by addorsed Chinese-style dragons "draped" over the monuments in the same position as the wolves of Bugut: heads down, eyes open, jaws agape.