catafalque

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A platform used to display or convey a coffin during a funeral, often ornate
a decorated bier on which a coffin rests in state during a funeral
A temporary structure sometimes used in the funeral solemnities of eminent persons, for the public exhibition of the remains, or their conveyance to the place of burial
a decorated raised structure on which the dead body of an important person is placed before their funeral (catafalco, from catafalicum , from kata- ( CATACLYSM) + fala )
{i} platform for a coffin
A catafalque
catafalco
catafalques
plural of catafalque
catafalque

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    [ 'ka-t&-"fo(l)k, -"falk ] (noun.) 1641. From French catafalque, from Italian catafalco