A person helping to carry or officially escorting a coffin at a funeral.
（出殡时）抬棺材的人，扈棺之人
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The King followed the coffin; the pall-bearers were the admirals and field marshals of the Empire.
My brother was one of the pall-bearers, and we buried him just by where the ceremony was.
Educated at Eton and University College, Oxford, Windham was a close friend of Edmund Burke and Dr Johnson, being a pall-bearer at the latter's funeral.
Naude's simple pine coffin, draped in a South African flag, was carried into the church by military pall-bearers.
The graveside ceremony was brief (thankfully, as it was bitterly cold) and in spite of the slippery mud the pall-bearers did a sterling job of keeping the coffin aloft and lowering it into the grave without incident.
Four pall-bearers carried his coffin, which was decorated with wreaths of red and yellow roses, into the church.
I was one of the pall-bearers; we're all in a state of mourning and, by the way, I won't be returning to New York until Monday night.
It's not an unusual sight in Ireland, the funeral possession with the jersey on the coffin, the club guard of honour, the team-mates as pall-bearers.
And they were pall-bearers at Stephen's funeral.
I think, traditionally, pall-bearers actually carried the casket in the procession.
Then music swells as she exits the coffin, and pall-bearers appear from the audience.
The party followed six pall-bearers into church who carried Mr Jackson's coffin, which was adorned with a large spray of white trumpet lilies.
In fact, he was privileged to be one of the pall-bearers on the last journey of Frida to the crematorium.
Twelve pall-bearers carried the Pope's coffin from inside the basilica and laid it down in the open followed by a procession of cardinals.
The coffin was borne in by pall-bearers, marching to a rapid, but light step.
The mayor approaches them, returns the son's money and explains that all the pall-bearers have refused their pay.
In a rush of reciprocity, the Americans allowed funerals limited trespass, sparing pall-bearers the burden of toting caskets an extra 100 metres to the church's vestibule.