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But the epitaphs have gone. Search among the ivies and yews of the shady little churchyard will discover a number of flat, weatherworn slabs of stone, but the verses and the signatures have vanished.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 44:", "text": "Ayot St Lawrence's most famous inhabitant, George Bernard Shaw, moved into the New Rectory in 1906 because, it is said, of a gravestone epitaph in the churchyard. This recorded the death of a woman who lived to be 70 with the comment 'Her time was short'. Shaw thought that a place that considered a life of 70 years short was the right place for him.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "An inscription on a gravestone in memory of the deceased." ], "id": "en-epitaph-en-noun-QvL-Ovb9", "links": [ [ "inscription", "inscription" ], [ "gravestone", "gravestone" ], [ "deceased", "deceased" ] ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "86 14", "code": "af", "lang": "Afrikaans", "sense": "inscription on a gravestone", "word": "epitaaf" }, { "_dis1": "86 14", "code": "hy", "lang": "Armenian", "roman": "tapanagir", "sense": "inscription on a gravestone", "word": "տապանագիր" }, { "_dis1": "86 14", "code": "hy", "lang": "Armenian", "roman": "širmagir", "sense": "inscription on a gravestone", "word": "շիրմագիր" }, { "_dis1": "86 14", "code": "hy", "lang": "Armenian", "roman": "gerezmanagir", "sense": "inscription on a gravestone", "word": "գերեզմանագիր" }, { "_dis1": "86 14", "code": "hy", "lang": "Armenian", "roman": "dambanagir", "sense": "inscription on a 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