What is "dirges"

Usage examples of "dirges".

After a half hour they were alone except for perhaps a dozen onlookers and the families of the two thieves, who were praying and singing dirges at the feet of the condemned.

Those damn dirges are still running around my brain, like a tone-deaf rat with a megaphone is trapped inside my head.

Old chip fat and baby sick were competing for supremacy in his nostrils, and BBC Radio One was clashing with the dirges running round his head.

Even the peace dirges of Greenham seemed preferable to endlessly chanting, ``Maggie!

I turned off the Homeview: I couldn't take any more echo orchestra and down scale love ballads—they came through to me more like funeral dirges and if I didn't get Heller off this planet, there was going to be one more—mine.