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A lychgate is a gate with a little roof over it at the way into a — the grass and graves around a church. It is a British church-yard word, not a city-street word. In the old days the coffin rested under that roof for a short time before the burial, so the name has a quiet, serious job. You still see lychgates on English village churches, often in old wood, sometimes with benches at the sides. Though actually, people also write lych-gate with a , and a few write lichgate; they mean the same roofed gateway.
教堂墓地入口的有頂大門
組成lych (an old word for a dead body, from Old English lic) + gate. The roofed gate where a body waited.
同家族的字
- lichshares the old “dead body” piece; in stories now, a kind of undead
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。