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bier
/bɪɚ/
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What does bier mean?
noun
- A litter to transport the corpse of a dead person.
- A platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed.
- A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woollen cloth.
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IPA pronunciation
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In a little while they came out bringing the bier and the white covering-cloth, and locked the door again.
Everywhere I turn I see the same figure—her bloodless arms and relaxed form flung by the murderer on its bridal bier.
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The body, on an open bier, borne on a kind of palanquin, covered with a gay cloth of crimson and gold.
This sentence was the only information remaining about Thénardier, casting upon that buried name its sinister light like a candle beside a bier.
They say, too, the body of Alcmena, as they were carrying her to her grave, vanished, and a stone was found lying on the bier.