Catafalque

Quick meaning: Catafalque is a noun meaning A platform used to display or convey a coffin during a funeral, often ornate.

Meaning

A platform used to display or convey a coffin during a funeral, often ornate.

Example Sentences

Until noon, the hour of the funeral, crowds continued to file by the plain pine coffin on its plain flower-covered catafalque.

The period of official mourning was long-drawn-out even by the standards of the day; the funeral ceremony held in Avignon's cathedral lasted a full nine days, with the pope's catafalque hung with black silk beneath candelabra likewise draped in black.

After another brief funeral rite at Tzu Hu, the presidential casket was laid on the catafalque in the central hall of a temporary “mausoleum” and sealed with marble slabs. There, the body of President Chiang will rest pending permanent burial in the mainland after its recovery.

Word Forms

• catafalques

Synonyms for catafalque

Depending on context, synonyms include catafalco.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include biers, catafalco, cortege, casket, coffen, sarcophagus.

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