bier
Example Sentences
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“I owe him a lot and this for me was really a gift to be able to pray for an hour on his bier.”
From Seattle Times
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
On Sunday, Benedict’s body lay on a burgundy-colored bier in the chapel of the monastery.
From Seattle Times
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
Friday evening’s solemn procession of decorated funeral biers, or Epitaphs, once again was fully attended.
From Seattle Times
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