Cemetery

noun

An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager. The inscriptions following will serve to illustrate the success attained in these Olympian games:

    His virtues were so conspicuous that his enemies, unable to
    overlook them, denied them, and his friends, to whose loose lives
    they were a rebuke, represented them as vices. They are here
    commemorated by his family, who shared them.

    In the earth we here prepare a
    Place to lay our little Clara.
    Thomas M. and Mary Frazer
    P.S. -- Gabriel will raise her.


—Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary