Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Parish (-es)
parish (-es), n. [AFr paroche < OFr par(r)oche or OFr paroisse, both < late L. parochia.]
- Township; village; small municipal region.
- Churchyard; cemetery; burial ground; [word play on “perish”] death; distance between the living and the dead.
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