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exequies

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exequies [eks-sik-weez]
Noun, pl
sing -quy funeral rites [Latin exequiae]

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Among Zelenka's four requiems the most important is the last in D major for the exequies of King Augustus II the Strong.
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Beginning with Monique Chatenet's itinerary of the wax effigy, introduced for the first time in 1503 for a prince, Pierre de Beaujeu, Duke of Bourbon, subsequent authors portray the stages and symbols employed for other prepossessing figures' exequies.
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Dreher had actually compared the singer's exequies with those of Princess Diana-"a ghoulish saturnalia of sentimentality .
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