death's-head

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English

Skulls and crossbones over the entrance to a cemetery.

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Noun

death's-head (plural death's-heads)

  1. A human skull, as symbol of death.
    • 1952, Ivanhoe‎[1], archived from the original on 2018-08-21:
      To the confusion and confounding of that cursed death's-head knight.
  2. A kind of hawk moth with pale markings on the back of the thorax somewhat like a skull.

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