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hearse
1. A framework of metal bars or rods placed over a tomb or coffin of a noble or very important person.
2. A canopy, usually of openwork or trellis, set over a bier, or more rarely over a permanent tomb; used especially to support candles, lighted at times of ceremony.


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They were based in a small village outside Toulongne, pronounced Herse.
To the left of the fountain, Mercury is struck by love as he catches sight of Herse returning from the temple with her friends (fig.
Two Flemish Catholics were Elsheimer's close friends: Sir Peter Paul Rubens, who bought his Judith and his Mocking of Ceres and kept them to his death, when they were acquired by Philip IV of Spain; and Paul Bril, who bought his Martyrdom of St Stephen and his Three Marys, and collaborated with him on Mercury and Herse.
 
 
 
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