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Definition

a pile of wood or other burnable material — especially to burn a dead body as in a funeral rite

While cremation is not uncommon in the western world, open air funeral pyres are typically illegal.

pyres = piles of wood or other burnable materials

In 1829 India banned the Hindu custom of a widow's suicide on her husband's funeral pyre.

pyre = piles of wood or other burnable materials

As the chains were wound over their body at the stake, and a flame set to the pyre,
Ayn Rand -- Anthem

pyre = stacked wood (to burn a body)

There was a silly damn bird called a Phoenix back before Christ: every few hundred years he built a pyre and burned himself up.
Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451

pyre = a pile of wood

The pyre can be seen for miles, if there are any eyes to see it.
Rick Yancey -- The Infinite Sea
Pile them all onto a great pyre and beg my forgiveness!
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
Jocelyn had her head turned aside, away from the burning pyre.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Glass
In an instant the whole creature was in flames, a prancing, writhing pyre on the snow.
Stephen King -- The Shining
Or, according to another tradition, at the shore he immolated himself upon a funeral pyre, and birds with multi-colored feathers arose from his ashes.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Then laved with lustral waves the mangled corse, Laid it on fresh-lopped branches, lit a pyre, And to his memory piled a mighty mound Of mother earth.
Sophocles -- Antigone
When a man died, his mount was killed and placed beneath him on the funeral pyre, to carry him to the night lands.
George R.R. Martin -- A Game of Thrones
It caught at once; long tongues of orange fire licked rapidly across the pyre.
Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
At the base of the pyre stood the crib—hewn with such love and joyful expectation—that the Livesedge child had died in.
Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders
I've been thinking we might make the brushwood into a pyre and burn his body—and those other things.
H.G. Wells -- The Island of Dr. Moreau
When they were gone, the albino came out, pulled the cups from the corpse, decided to burn the body on the garbage pyre back behind the castle.
William Goldman -- The Princess Bride
If Francisco had wanted a worthy funeral pyre for d'Anconia Copper, she thought, he —had succeeded.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
A few miles to the south, a swirling pyre of flames and black smoke was all that remained of the Zhang family mansion.
Rick Riordan -- The Son of Neptune
It has an unspeakable, wild, Hindoo odor about it, such as may lurk in the vicinity of funereal pyres.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
He wept as he told us that he literally had to reach down into the graves, lift out and carry the decomposing bodies to the burning pyres.
Leon Leyson -- The Boy on the Wooden Box
And I found the remains of my father in the funeral pyre.
Frank Herbert -- Dune

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