bier

"In India, it's said that the bride enters the husband's home carried on a palanquin and that she leaves only after her death, carried out on a funeral bier," Rao told the BBC.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026

While you meditate you brood on the impermanence of all things, including yourself, and envision yourself as a corpse, lying out on a bier, all life gone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

The solemn processions, with the flower-adorned biers followed by the clergy and the faithful, are often spectacular, especially in places where bier processions from each parish converge into a central square.

From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2024

As of Tuesday night, about 135,000 people had filed past the former pope, who has been lying in state without any papal regalia on a catafalque, a raised bier, before the basilica's main altar.

From Reuters ● Jan. 4, 2023

Nathan prepares the bier, I see him lifting the body on to it.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

When it flowed regularly, sturdy reeds grew on its banks which the Yaqui used to build everything from houses to funeral biers.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2022

Funeral biers would come, and if there was a shortage of funeral biers, some other flat table or something or other would be used to place the corpses on.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019

The earth, it seems, has been randomly sampled and laid out on beds and biers and strange pedestals in a state of uncanny suspended animation.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2018

The biers look like hospital stretchers, only sturdier and missing the mattresses.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2012

Gold was piled on the biers of dead kings and queens; and mounds covered them, and the stone doors were shut; and the grass grew over all.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien