bier
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"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
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
Faithful and curious, the public strode briskly up the center aisle to pass by the bier with its cloth draping after waiting in a line that by midmorning snaked around St. Peter’s Square.
From Washington Times • Jan. 2, 2023
Butterflies flew in and out of the bunches of field flowers now loosened from the top of the bier and lying in a small heap at the edge of the grave.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
Vocabulary lists containing bier
Romeo and Juliet
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 3
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