bier
noun
a frame or stand on which a corpse or the coffin containing it is laid before burial.
biers
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pluralof bier.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Friday evening’s solemn procession of decorated funeral biers, or Epitaphs, once again was fully attended.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2022
Funeral biers would come, and if there was a shortage of funeral biers, some other flat table or something or other would be used to place the corpses on.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019
The earth, it seems, has been randomly sampled and laid out on beds and biers and strange pedestals in a state of uncanny suspended animation.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2018
The biers look like hospital stretchers, only sturdier and missing the mattresses.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2012
Gold was piled on the biers of dead kings and queens; and mounds covered them, and the stone doors were shut; and the grass grew over all.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
