The act of placing a body in a coffin for burial; preparing someone for burial.
From 'coffin' (Old French cofin from Latin cophinus from Greek kóphinos) plus '-ing' (Old English -ing). A gerund form describing the funerary practice of placing the dead in coffins.
Medieval 'coffining' was such a significant ritual that specific people were paid professionals to do it properly—kind of like how today we have funeral directors, showing how every culture formalizes death handling!
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