Use for slender, towerlike structures erected in cemeteries to contain a light and often an altar; common in Medieval France.
AAT
30005912
beacons, cemetery
cemetery beacons
dead, lanterns of the
graveyard lanterns
lanterns, graveyard
12yrs ago
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