bûcher
Meanings
Noun
1. woodshed (enclosed, roofed structure, often an outbuilding, used primarily to store firewood)
2. pyre (funeral pile; combustible heap on which corpses are burned)
3. stake (pile of wood on which a person condemned to death is burned)
4. the flames of Hell (in the plural)
Examples5
Il a été brûlé sur le bûcher.
He was burned at the stake.
La sorcière a été brûlée sur le bûcher.
The witch was burned at the stake.
Le feu du cœur peut-il être éteint dans les flammes du bûcher funéraire ?
Can the fire of the heart be extinguished in the flames of the funeral pile?
L'hérétique fut brûlé sur le bûcher.
The heretic was burned at the stake.
Il n'y a pas si longtemps, les Européens brûlaient les hérétiques sur le bûcher.
It wasn't very long ago that Europeans were burning heretics at the stake.