OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 9330

bier

/bɪə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
angarillas • camilla • parihuelas
A litter to transport the corpse of a dead person.
They bore him bare-faced on the bier.
catafalco
A platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed.
On April 5, 1925, Chiang Kai-shek returned from the First Eastern Expedition to the Whampoa Military Academy to officiate at a funeral service for Sun Yat-sen, who had died in Peki…
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