mourner's seatとは 意味・読み方・使い方

同意語

• mourner's bench
• mourner's row
• mourner's seat
• mourner's stool
• mourner's pew

引用

• 1845 - Adventures Of Captain Simon Suggs by Johnson Jones Hooper: "And then," continued Suggs, "I wanted to git off, but they hilt me, and bimeby I felt so missuble, I had to go yonder" -- pointing to the mourners' seat.
• 1940 - Salvation

by Langston Hughes: That night I was escorted to the front row and placed on the mourners' bench with all the other young sinners, who had not yet been brought to Jesus.

• 1958 - Home From The Hill by William Humphrey: But what annoyed Fred was having the christening of his son in the very best church in town spoiled by the attendance of any revivalists of the mourners’ bench sort.
• 1992 - The Mourner's Bench from the album But, What Ends When The Symbols Shatter? by Death In June: Something got hold of me / It ratttled around my head / Early one morning / On the mourner's bench.