burying ground

English

Noun

burying ground (plural burying grounds)

(now rare) A burial ground; a graveyard or cemetery.
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 88, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […], published 1781, →OCLC:
  [H]is lordship had changed his mind about going to Flanders, but expected to meet him, on such a day and hour, in the burying-ground near Red-lion-square.

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