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undertaker
noun
A funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations
historical name for persons receiving land in Ireland during the Elizabethan era, so named because they gave an undertaking to abide by several conditions regarding loyalty to the crown, marriage, and their spoken language.
In 1588 w:Edmund Spenser, Edmund Spenser becomes an
in the first Elizabethan plantation, receiving the forfeited Irish estate of Kilcolman Castle''.
Translations:
French: croque-mort
German: Beerdigungsunternehmer, Bestatter
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