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]

  • (UK) IPA: /ˈkatəfalk/

Noun [edit]

catafalque (plural catafalques)

  1. 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.

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French [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Italian catafalco, from Vulgar Latin *catafalicum.

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Noun [edit]

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catafalque m (plural catafalques)

  1. catafalco, catafalque