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dead march

noun

a piece of solemn music for a funeral procession, especially one played at a military funeral.

dead march

a piece of solemn funeral music played to accompany a procession, esp at military funerals

First recorded in 1595–1605

Bid your band silence that dead march, or, by my word, they shall have sufficient cause for their lugubrious strains.

At last she seemed on the point of bursting into tears; and, suddenly changing the music, she began playing a dead-march.

It is like the dead-march of a gnat amid the trumpeting of elephants and the roaring of lions.

April 24, 2024gallimaufry

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