0 a stone placed at a grave on which the dead person’s name etc is written. -- หินสลักชื่อผู้ตายหน้าหลุมฝังศพ
Generally, the wooden crosses were of a temporary nature, which would be replaced the following season by gravestones.
As he says, 'many a heather-covered hillside is a gravestone to a once awe-inspiring volcano'.
The tomb, in the shape of a triple-necked gourd, has signs of fresh paint on its gravestone.
We wanted to buy him a gravestone for his birthday, but we couldn't afford it.
Granites in gravestones, xenoliths in kerbstones, ballast walls and gastropod mileposts, unconformities in brickwork and bedding in 'pulhamite'; the examples are diverse and diverting.
Louie's work covers a wider time-span and makes use of a range of ethnographic methods involving press reports, official documents, and gravestones.
A gravestone is "a sign whose silent presence marks an absence" (p. 1), thus incorporating the idea of the absent as an inherent component of mobility.
Three of the chapters, on local xenophobia, rural marriage patterns, and gravestones and local attachment, will be familiar to readers, having had previous lives as journal articles.
