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Date: 1600-1700
Language: Latin
Origin: pyra, from Greek, from pyr 'fire'

pyre

 noun
     
Related topics: Death
pyre [countable]
MX a high pile of wood on which a dead body is placed to be burned in a funeral ceremony:
a funeral pyre
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