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bier
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synonyms: catafalque ???
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Definition:a platform on which a coffin rests prior to burial
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When that my fourthe husband was on bier,
I wept algate and made a sorry cheer,
As wives must, for it is the usage;
And with my kerchief covered my visage;
Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath's Prologue (1400)
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they lowered her into her oak coffin, that was fitted into the other two; but as the bier was too large, they had to fill up the gaps with the wool of a mattress.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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Mr. Taylor and the high church officials were the first to file around the bier to wave farewell to the departed and get a glimpse of what lay in store for all men.
Maya Angelou. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
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OPHELIA: [Sings] They bore him barefaced on the bier; Hey non nonny, nonny, hey nonny; And in his grave rain'd many a tear— Fare you well, my dove!
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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[...] four men lifted the rods onto their shoulders and paraded the chair from the church, through the abbey gate, past the island shops, as if it were Cleopatra's throne or the bier of a Greek god.
Sue Monk Kidd. The Mermaid Chair, p.104 (2005)
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she braided her long hair and rolled it about her ears as death had told her it should be on her bier.
Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude, pp.302-3 (1970)
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But when they set the bier down on the threshold, they looked at one another, and at me, and whispered. I knew why. They felt as if it were not right to lay him down in the same quiet room.
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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