Dirges

Word DIRGES
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Definitions and meanings of "Dirges"

What do we mean by dirges?

A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.

A song or piece of music that is considered too slow, bland or boring.

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The word "dirges" in example sentences

The bard, the rhapsodist, the extemporaneous singer of war-chants and dirges, is the only representative of literature at that early stage in the history of a people; and it is not till the arts of peace have taken their place side by side with the arts of war, that poems are written, not sung – that histories are recorded with the pen, not carved out by the sword. ❋ Unknown (1891)

In proof of this, we have but to recall the dirges and triumph songs, the reflective lyrics, and the liturgical hymns that compose the collection we know as the Psalms. ❋ Various (N/A)

In the following quotation 'dirges' are mentioned by name. ❋ Unknown (1900)

The band played a mixture of dirges and spirituals that seemed to elevate the emotions of many, but those elegies left Sisko feeling more lost and alone than ever. ❋ David R. George III (2011)

The Philadelphia-via-Arlington band plays gorgeous dirges that were made for an era of castles and moats, but they maintain a feel of modern psychedelia. ❋ Fritz Hahn (2011)

During the 1999 Kosovo debate, the Pentagon found more to like in the antiwar dirges of Ron Paul than in the war cries of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. ❋ Mark Moyar (2011)

But while Beach House favors hazy, willowy dreamscapes and Wye Oak plays sturdy, dynamic dirges, Lower Dens works somewhere in the middle. ❋ David Malitz (2011)

They are helped immensely by Paul Wills's ingenious coal-barge set; Howard Harrison's stormy lighting; and especially by Adam Cork's sounds of the angry sea, complemented occasionally by the singing of some other-worldly sea shanties that might, in another context, be taken for dirges. ❋ Paul Levy (2011)

The band's call-and-response dirges are built on a garage-blues base but as usual, it's Svenonious's lyrics, walking that fine line between manifesto and irony, that steal the show. ❋ Rhome Anderson (2011)

"Blues Queen of New Orleans" Marva Wright, who died in March at 62, was honored this year as members from several Social Aid and Pleasure clubs solemnly led family members and fans to the monuments site with brass-band-led dirges. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They were a great band in their day, but that doesn't give Radiohead the right to keep releasing bizarre dirges that sound like C-3P0 being murdered. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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