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 Translation for 'Bier' from English to French
NOUN   a bier | biers
brancards {m.pl}bier {sg} [for coffin]
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Translation for 'Bier' from English to French

bier {sg} [for coffin]
brancards {m.pl}
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Usage Examples English
  • On the wall in the nave is a bier, used to carry the dead to the churchyard.
  • Ch. 8 (20): The Council agree that the ordeal of bier-right be employed to discover Proudfute's murderer. Magdalen chooses Gow as her champion.
  • Eleanor's bier spent the night of 4 December 1290 in Grantham, Lincolnshire.
  • The name was first seen as the Flemish word 'geuze-bier' in a French text in 1829.
  • The 12th-century chronicler Symeon of Durham recounts that after wandering in the north, Saint Cuthbert's bier miraculously came to a halt at the hill of Warden Law and, despite the effort of the congregation, would not move.

  • On occasions of state, military, central para-military forces funerals, the flag shall be draped over the bier or coffin with the saffron towards the head of the bier or coffin.
  • A special song (요령잡기소리) is sung while they carry the bier to enter the house.
  • Later, the dwarfs carry Snövit on a bier through the forest.
  • A frame displaying Hwang's decorations was placed at the foot of her bier during her funeral.
  • 33 litre (a "Seidel", "kleines Bier" or "Glas Bier") and 0.5 litre (a "Krügerl" or "großes Bier" or "Hoibe").

  • A frame displaying Ju's decorations was placed at the foot of his bier during his funeral.
  • A frame displaying Jon's decorations was placed at the foot of his bier during his funeral.
  • 3 litre (a "Seidel", "kleines Bier" or "Glas Bier") and 0.5 litre (a "Krügerl" or "großes Bier" or "Halbe") measures.
  • A frame displaying Ryu's decorations was placed at the foot of her bier during her funeral.
  • A bier is often draped with cloth to lend dignity to the funeral service.

  • His funeral was held at [...] in Sandefjord on 7 December. After the ceremony, his bier was transferred to [...].
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