英语词汇“burning-ghat”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

4. In full burning-ghat. A level spot at the top of a river ghat on which Hindus burn their dead; a funeral pyre.

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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > cremation > [noun] > pile or pyre > site of

burning-ghat1877

1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 567/1 To erect cinerators on the burning ghat or ground.

1891 R. Kipling City of Dreadful Night in Life's Handicap 328 A woman's corpse going down to the burning-ghat.

1901 ‘Linesman’ Words Eyewitness (1902) 288 The second farm, which a night or two later blazed as a burning ghat over the poor sergeant's dead body.

1908 Daily Chron. 14 Nov. 5/4 At the ghat, or funeral pyre, a mixture of milk and cocoanut water..was poured into the mouth of the corpse.

1937 L. Bromfield Rains Came i. i. 12 He came frequently along these paths to the ghats after nightfall. There was a kind of macabre beauty about the place, and in the spectacle of the cremation itself there was a kind of faith and certainty.

1964 A. Swinson Six Minutes to Sunset ii. 33 The corpses were taken to the burning ghats outside the city.

单词	burning-ghat
释义	> as lemmas burning-ghat burning-ghat n. see ghat n. 4. extracted from burningn. burning-ghat 4. In full burning-ghat. A level spot at the top of a river ghat on which Hindus burn their dead; a funeral pyre. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > cremation > [noun] > pile or pyre > site of burning-ghat1877 1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 567/1 To erect cinerators on the burning ghat or ground. 1891 R. Kipling City of Dreadful Night in Life's Handicap 328 A woman's corpse going down to the burning-ghat. 1901 ‘Linesman’ Words Eyewitness (1902) 288 The second farm, which a night or two later blazed as a burning ghat over the poor sergeant's dead body. 1908 Daily Chron. 14 Nov. 5/4 At the ghat, or funeral pyre, a mixture of milk and cocoanut water..was poured into the mouth of the corpse. 1937 L. Bromfield Rains Came i. i. 12 He came frequently along these paths to the ghats after nightfall. There was a kind of macabre beauty about the place, and in the spectacle of the cremation itself there was a kind of faith and certainty. 1964 A. Swinson Six Minutes to Sunset ii. 33 The corpses were taken to the burning ghats outside the city. extracted from ghatn. < as lemmas
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