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pyre::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | funeral pyre |
| Type of | agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, heap, mound, pile |
Examples of pyre
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While walking he sprinkles water and sometimes ghee onto the pyre from a vessel.
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Our tickets from Zurich put us on a train to Milan before the pyre was lighted.
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Kanwar's four brothers spread a stole embroidered with gold thread over the pyre.
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While begging for alms, he was recognized and burned in a huge pyre of sandalwood.
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Burnt animal bones are often found, they may have been placed on the pyre as food.
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The pyre was sixty metres high, square in shape, and built in stepped levels.
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Mrs Gandhi lay before them on a pyre, her tiny form wrapped in a plain white shroud.
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He was to sit on a pyre along with his aunt Holika, believed to be unharmed by fire.
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Back on the banks of the burning ghat, the funeral party prepares to light the pyre.
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- Wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite
- Pyre is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe. He first appeared in during the Venom: Funeral Pyre miniseries in 1993.
- Gian Pyres (born Gianpiero Piras, October 20, 1973) is a British Guitarist perhaps best known for his work with extreme metal band Cradle of Filth for which he co-wrote and recorded guitars for Cruelty and the Beast (1998), Midian (2000), Bitter Suites to Succubi (2001) and Lovecraft & Witch ...
- A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned; Any heap or pile of combustibles
- (PYRES) (ttvp-ns], of Miletus, a writer of that lascivious species of poetry denominated Ionic, and in which Sotades of Maroneia, who lived after Pyres, was principally conspicuous. As Sotades lived in the time of Ptolemy Philadelphus, Pyres must have lived previous to b. c. 285. (Athen. xiv. p. ...
- A pile of things to burn a corpse on.
- A ceremonial construction made of wood and fire, designed to reduce a corpse to ashes.
- A pile on which a dead body is burned, as in a funeral rite.
- A ritual fire, term is most often used to denote the ritual fire whence the dead are to be cremated. Hence the term "Funeral Pyre". See also "Balefire".
