cemetery gate
Burial ground entry
A cemetery gate is the entrance to a burial ground, typically a formal structure of iron, stone, or wood marking the threshold between the world of the living and the dead.
Cemetery gates often feature ornate or gothic design elements and carry associations with mortality, transition, and the macabre: The old cemetery gate creaked as we pushed it open.
In gothic and horror contexts, the cemetery gate serves as a symbolic boundary.
- wrought ironSoft, workable decorative metal
- tombstoneMemorial stone at grave
- graveyardPlot for interring the dead
- entrancePoint of access
- latchDoor-securing catch
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- death symbolsskull, skeleton, coffin, tombstone, gravestone
- cemeteriesgraves, grave, burial, headstones, headstone
- gatesgatepost, tollgate, floodgate, portcullis, lychgate
- burial sitesgrave, tomb, tombs, crypt, crypts
- grave monumentstombstone, gravestone, headstone, grave marker, mausoleum
- burial artgravestone, headstone, tombstone, sarcophagus, mausoleum
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