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‖ oraison funèbre|ɔrɛzɔ̃ fynɛbr|
[Fr.]
A funeral oration.
1874H. L. Farrer Bossuet vii. 313 [On] the occasion of the Queen's death,..Louis XIV requested him [sc. Bossuet] to preach her Oraison Funèbre. This was in 1683. 1876Encycl. Brit. IV. 70/2 In the Oraisons Funèbres Bossuet is unapproachable... Nowhere does his genius take such wing as at the grave's mouth. 1907G. Meredith Let. 22 Dec. (1970) III. 1620 You will not care for an orasion funèbre. 1953W. Stevens Let. 16 Nov. (1967) 802 An oraison funebre is not in my line. 1957N. Frye Anat. Crit. 296 The corresponding form in oratorical prose is the oraison funèbre, which survives in some forms of modern obituary. |