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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 dirge /ˈdɝʤ/
 輓歌,哀悼歌

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Dirge n.  A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn.
 The raven croaked, and hollow shrieks of owls
 Sung dirges at her funeral.   --Ford.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 dirge
      n : a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a
          memorial to a dead person [syn: coronach, lament, requiem,
           threnody]