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Hearse
Large funeral vehicle / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the vehicle. For other uses, see Hearse (disambiguation).
A hearse is a large vehicle, originally a horse carriage but later with the introduction of motor vehicles, a car, used to carry the body of a deceased person in a casket at a funeral, wake, or graveside service. They range from deliberately anonymous vehicles to heavily decorated vehicles.
Cadillac hearse used at the state funeral of Ronald Reagan
In the funeral trade of some countries hearses are called funeral cars or funeral coaches.