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

“That river bears our name. That is where animals live, our medical plants, our reeds live. We don’t have reeds anymore,.” When someone dies, relatives have to buy reeds to make their funeral bier.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2022

Lying on cushions, as if she really were ill, she braided her long hair and rolled it about her ears as death had told her it should be on her bier.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

When it flowed regularly, sturdy reeds grew on its banks which the Yaqui used to build everything from houses to funeral biers.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 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

Sutues of saints, and of crusaders on their biers, or those pretending to be crusaders; effigies of all kinds.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood