bier

"In India, it's said that the bride enters the husband's home carried on a palanquin and that she leaves only after her death, carried out on a funeral bier," Rao told the BBC.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026

While you meditate you brood on the impermanence of all things, including yourself, and envision yourself as a corpse, lying out on a bier, all life gone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

As of Tuesday night, about 135,000 people had filed past the former pope, who has been lying in state without any papal regalia on a catafalque, a raised bier, before the basilica's main altar.

From Reuters ● Jan. 4, 2023

Faithful and curious, the public strode briskly up the center aisle to pass by the bier with its cloth draping after waiting in a line that by midmorning snaked around St. Peter’s Square.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 2, 2023

There the bier was placed on a specially prepared altar in the middle of the floor.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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