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corpse candle
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corpse candle
noun
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A thick candle formerly used at a lich wake, or the customary watching with a corpse on the night before its interment.
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A luminous appearance, resembling the flame of a candle, sometimes seen in churchyards and other damp places, superstitiously regarded as portending death.
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