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Funeral pile

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a structure of combustible material, upon which a dead body is placed to be reduced to ashes, as part of a funeral rite; a pyre.

See also: Funeral


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And on the twelfth day, as he was lying on the funeral pile, he returned to life and told them what he had seen in the other world.
The Republic by Plato View in context
I shall quit your vessel on the ice raft which brought me thither and shall seek the most northern extremity of the globe; I shall collect my funeral pile and consume to ashes this miserable frame, that its remains may afford no light to any curious and unhallowed wretch who would create such another as I have been.
Frankenstein by Shelley, Mary View in context
She burned furiously, mournful and imposing like a funeral pile kindled in the night, surrounded by the sea, watched over by the stars.
Youth: A Narrative by Conrad, Joseph View in context
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