Plural of dirge; multiple mournful songs, funeral compositions, or laments for the dead.
From 'dirge' plus the regular English plural suffix '-es' (because 'dirge' ends in a soft 'ge' sound).
A collection of dirges is essentially a playlist of professional sadness—medieval composers apparently had entire albums of funeral music they could choose from!
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