The name of this vehicle used on grave occasions comes from the Old French for "long rake"
...... which I had 
read in yellow manuscripts--the old forgotten French of the middle ages was... [DOC] [TLE] Naples and Pompeii - Evangelical Tracts [PAR] On this occasion, however, I must offer yet further apologiesand as I sel- ..... 
ence of Old Catholics, from which we trust great things may yet come.