burning ghat
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of burning ghat
First recorded in 1875–80
Example Sentences
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Jackie journeyed to the burning ghat on the Jumna River, laid a bouquet of white roses on the spot where Gandhi was cremated in 1948.
From Time Magazine Archive
A giant burning ghat was erected on the highway.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
He would be a rich man that night; bags of rupees; a well thatched house to cover his gray hairs till that day they placed him on the pyre at the burning ghat.
From The Adventures of Kathlyn by MacGrath, Harold
King gave him a small sum of money, and we walked away toward the burning ghat, where there was nothing but a mean smell and a few old men with rakes gathering up ashes.
From Caves of Terror by Mundy, Talbot
It is but seldom that a cremation is not in progress at the burning ghat.
From East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan by Penfield, Frederic Courtland
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