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dirge

UK/dɜːdʒ/ US/dɝd͡ʒ/ uncommon informal

noun

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a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person

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From Middle English dirige, from Latin dirige (“steer, direct”), from the beginning of the first antiphon in matins for the dead, Dirige, Domine, deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam. Doublet of dirige.

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