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Pyre Pie Err Noun Pile Wood Twigs Lit Fire

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(PIE-err), noun

A pile of wood and twigs, lit on fire to burn bodies during funerals.

Suzette was so devastated when her fiancé ran off with another socialite that she took his belongings and burned them on a metaphorical funeral PYRE.

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