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Dirging
From the Robert E. Howard Lexicon
© 2017 James LaFond
JUN/8/17
"The wailing of the Kirghiz women, hidden in the thickets, was like the dirging of lost souls."
-The Daughter of Erlik Khan
dirge.
[dərj]
NOUN
dirges (plural noun)
a lament for the dead, especially one forming part of a funeral rite.
synonyms: elegy · lament · burial hymn · threnody · requiem · funeral march · keen
•a mournful song, piece of music, or poem:
ORIGIN
Middle English (denoting the Office for the Dead): from Latin dirige! (imperative) ‘direct!,’ the first word of an antiphon (Psalm 5:8) used in the Latin Office for the Dead.
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