A coffin of an elaborate and costly kind.
1881. Here the casket will be placed on the train for Cleveland.—N.Y. corr. of The Times, Sept. 24. (N.E.D.)
1910. [The funeral eulogist] should, of course, compare his remarks to a flower, or, better still, a floweret, which he is dropping on the “casket.” In polite society the word “coffin” has become obsolete. To sympathize with the mourners is to “mingle one’s tears with theirs.” The grave-stone is either “the marble shaft” or “the simple stone which marks the spot where his mouldering dust is deposited.”—N.Y. Evening Post, Sept. 29.
