Definition of "mortician" [mortician]

• See funeral director. (noun)

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• "Using the term "mortician," making videos of their profession, and just love telling people what they do."
• "But when Johnny Johnson, a mortician from the Army Human Resources department came to Christy Miller Jackman's home in Sacramento, the Miller sisters tried to pin him down on specifics."
• "The mortician was a long thin man with a long thin face and the morose, saintly, weak expression of a starving gazelle."