cenotaph
- n a monument built to honor people whose remains are interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered
- With 382 black-and-white pictures spread across oversize pages, it has the heft of a gravestone, which is not so different from what it is, a cenotaph .
- After Doktor Rosenberg had laid a swastika wreath on the Unknown Soldier's cenotaph, a British war veteran heaved the wreath into the Thames.
- His concrete museum, cenotaph and gigantic public square managed to be both mournful and modern, elegiac yet elegant.