Meanings
plural epitaphoi · plural epitaphions
- ChristianityAn embroidered veil showing the dead body of Jesus Christ.
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Visitors kept dropping by, following the custom of seeing as many epitaphoi as possible; the more you visit, the better your luck for the coming year. I crawled under the epitaphion, too, and Spiridoula tipped me off that people take flowers from the epitaphion home with them after the evening service to save as filakta — protective amulets.
2004, Eleni N. Gage, North of Ithaka, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 68
Origin
- Ancient Greekἐπῐτᾰ́φῐον
- Englishepitaphion
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπῐτᾰ́φῐον (epĭtắphĭon).
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