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† pyree Obs. rare.
[a. F. pyrée (Littré), f. Gr. πῦρ fire: cf. πυρεῖον a pan for coals.]
The altar of fire in the religion of the ancient Persians.
1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 186 Albors..infamous in the Pyreë or Temple of Idolatrous Fyre, which has never gone out for fifty Ages. Ibid. 277 The Pyree he incinerated, and made other common fire be commixt with that they boasted they had from heaven. |