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dirge
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synonyms: elegy, epicedium, threne, threnos ???
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Definition:a lugubrious funeral hymn
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REQUIEM, n. A mass for the dead which the minor poets assure us the winds sing o'er the graves of their favorites. Sometimes, by way of providing a varied entertainment, they sing a dirge.
Ambrose Bierce. The Devil's Dictionary
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as more and more people reached the cornfield and lit their candles and began to hum a low, dirgelike song for which Mr. O'Dwyer called back to the distant memory of his Dublin grandfather.
Alice Sebold. The Lovely Bones, p.205 (2002)
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With an auspicious and one dropping eye,
With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage,
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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my mother is too sensible to sing dirges, but she would get pensive, she would remove herself, and I would have none of it, needful thing that I was.
Gillian Flynn. Gone Girl, p.221 (2012)
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