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Перевод: bier

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похоронные дроги; одр
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Тезаурус:

1. In instances where the corpse was to travel to the grave in just a winding-sheet, either palled on the bier or via the parish coffin, one does wonder whether there was an unwritten code that the sheet chosen be one of the best from the linen cupboard, or if the sheet upon which the person died sufficed.
2. Within parish churches the use of coffin stools were, in some areas, being overtaken by the bier and the custom of issuing mourners with wax tapers - slender candles some two or three feet in length and between half and 11/2 inches in diameter - was already in decline, not to be reintroduced until the late sixteenth century when they reappeared in their new capacity as flambeaus for night-time funerals; in the eighteenth century a more elaborate form of triple candle, twisted to resemble a three-branched candlestick and very much like the Candlemas candle once used in the Roman Rite, was carried by one of the undertaker's men proceeding the cortge.
3. In 1898 four parties of bearers - colliers, estate workmen, tenants and labourers - were detailed to wheel Gladstone's bier from Hawarden church to Broughton Hall railway station, and in 1952 estate workers formed the guard of honour in Sandringham church around the coffin of George VI.
4. One of Aunt Janie's favourite sayings was "Give them their roses now", not wait "till they are lying on their bier", although she did not always practise what she preached.
5. The Scrapbook is also variously supported by Association Franaise d'Action Artistique, the Ministry of Culture, Copenhagen, the Instituo Banco San Paulo of Turin, Becks Bier, to name some of the backers, and also by the furtively named Friends of the Situationist International, whoever they are!
6. When the cortege stopped he bowed his head under the bier and prayed requesting that he should die that night to join the bishop in heaven.
7. An archbishop presided at her requiem and her bier was carried through the city by leading members of the civil authorities.
8. His great oak coffin that had been ready for him for years was set up like a cupboard at the head of the bier, fresh lined with red and gold damask, its silver handles polished bright.
9. The Chesterfield monument (c.1580-;90), commemorating an unknown member of the Foljambe family, has the corpse loosely wrapped in an end-knotted winding-sheet and lying on a bier - the corpse does not lie flat but is slightly concave, as though suffering from a slight rigor mortis.
10. We removed the harness from the horse and made a rough bier for the King's corpse.
11. He had them set up his bier at the end of the hall, draped in black velvet, and its handles tasselled in black and gold.
12. As the storm raged about them, the bier unaccountably broke and the corpse tumbled into a meadow the bailiff had been trying to extort.
13. Someone from the Vienna art gallery arrived to take a death mask, and crowds of people were soon queuing to view the body, which was laid on a bier in a black suit with a cowl over its head.