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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 661 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CENOTAPH (Gr. ,cevos, empty, racks,
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tomb)  , a
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monument or tablet to the memory of a
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person whose
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body is buried elsewhere . The
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custom arose from the erection of monuments to those whose bodies could not be recovered, as in the
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case of drowning .

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