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pyre

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pyre
1. n. A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
* For nine long nights, through all the dusky air, The pyres thick flaming shot a dismal glare. - Homer Iliad, p. 31
2. n. Any heap or pile of combustibles.

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