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Definitionn. a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
Last update: September 27, 2015
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The specter, after listening for a moment, joined in the mournful dirge; and floated out upon the bleak, dark night. [noun]
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Why not make - say - all television stations play that dirge at some point during the day? [noun]
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Do you happen to recollect," he went on, turning to Demetrius, "our conversation on board ship about a dirge for Pytho. [noun]
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CORONACH, a dirge. [noun]
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Thy death's hour heard no kindred wail, No holy knell thy requiem rung; Thy mourners were the plaided Gael, Thy dirge the clamourous pibroch sung. [noun]
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CORONACH, a dirge. [noun]
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In pity for his unhappy fate, the Muses collected his remains, which they buried at the foot of Mount Olympus, and the nightingale warbled a funeral dirge over his grave. [noun]
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The funeral pyre was then lighted, and the voices of the Muses were heard chanting his funeral dirge. [noun]
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It is not meant that for three centuries the dirge-writers had nothing else to sing of; much less, that they sang of the fall of Jerusalem (presupposed by our book) before its occurrence. [Please select]
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The favourite song of the Egyptians, according to Herodotus, was a dirge. [Please select]
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It strikes me this ought ter fetch somethin' first cousin to a dirge.' [Please select]
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