catafalque
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English [edit]
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Etymology [edit]
From French catafalque, from Italian catafalco, of unknown origin. Compare scaffold.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
catafalque (plural catafalques)
- A platform used to display or convey a coffin during a funeral, often ornate.
- 1942, The Giant Joshua by Maurine Whipple
- Until noon, the hour of the funeral, crowds continued to file by the plain pine coffin on its plain flower-covered catafalque.
- 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge 2008, p. 91:
- 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.
- 1942, The Giant Joshua by Maurine Whipple
Translations [edit]
platform to display or convey a coffin
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Italian catafalco, from Vulgar Latin *catafalicum.
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /ka.ta.falk/
- Homophone: catafalques
Noun [edit]
catafalque m (plural catafalques)
