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