Definitions
a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
Word origin
From Middle English dirige, from Latin dirige (“steer, direct”), from the beginning of the first antiphon in matins for the dead, Dirige, Domine, deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam. Doublet of dirige.
Used in a sentence
“It was as if the night sang dirges with clenched teeth.”
“Over six sections – a prologue, a life-story, a dream-quest, a dirge, a masque and an epilogue – they meditate on their lives, their hopes, their losses, and on the human condition.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Lament”5 letters
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