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Meanings of funeral song in English
Spanish
canto fúnebre Catalan
cant fúnebre Somber song or lament expressing mourning or grief, such as would be appropriate for performance at a funeral.
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Examples for "dirge"
Examples for "dirge"
1
But changing the painful dirge that is our national anthem would help.
2
Since then we have often heard the death dirge sung in Montenegro.
3
Having intoned the two lines the flock took up the doleful dirge.
4
Another change of frequencies brought orchestral music into the room-a funeral dirge.
5
They were a paean of passion, but the dirge of its denial.
Usage of funeral song in English
1
Then the squaws chanted a wild funeral song in tones of surpassing plaintiveness.
2
We were thinking of singing you the funeral song of forgiveness.
3
She wondered whether he had been happy or unhappy, making his funeral song.
4
In the close recurs the full flow of funeral song, with the hymnal harmonies.
5
With the trampling of feet and the funeral song.
6
The brothers talk Glastonbury memories, and what it's like to write a popular funeral song.
7
Above us the shells still sang their funeral song.
8
She didn't even know it was a funeral song.
9
This is a funeral song the poor Bedawin women sing over the death of a child:
10
At this moment a procession descends from the Wartburg, chanting a funeral song over an open bier.
11
Our favorite funeral song was "Hark From the Tomb."
12
Our funeral song rang through the stone-age setting of Russian winter with the discordant sonorities of thousands of voices.
13
When we arrived in sight of this place, the canoes all closed together, and joined in singing a funeral song.
14
Our baptizing song was mostly "On Jordan's Stormy Banks I Stand" and our funeral song was "Hark From The Tomb."
15
He wept over him; for in the intervals of the funeral song the merry dance-tune sounded softly which the future struck up: There he comes!
16
Do you know that people here have forgotten their own funeral songs?