📚 verb • entry_id 43013
pay one's last respects
Meanings (ES + gloss)
dar las condolencias • pagar respetos (mis/sus/los)
To visit the place where the remains of a dead person has been prepared for burial or cremation, either as a private act of remembrance or as a public display to others.
1822 The Christian Journal, and Literary Register Mr. Thompson performed the service, and I preached a sermon to a crowded congregation of friends and mourners, who came together t…
The persons that attended funerals were the friends and relations of the deceased, who thought themselves obliged to pay their last respects to the dead.
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