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Waving away pyre smoke at the riverbank, the homeless priest Pandey explained how the fires of Varanasi’s burning ghats were virtually eternal—rekindled from ember to ember across thousands of continuous years of cremations.
—Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 21 Mar. 2019
On our last afternoon, a small group of us take a boat to the burning ghats.
—Skye McAlpine, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 June 2018
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First Known Use
1877, in the meaning defined above
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“Burning ghat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/burning%20ghat. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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