catafalque
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From French catafalque, from Italian catafalco, of unknown origin. Compare scaffold.
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catafalque (plural catafalques)
- A platform used to display or convey a coffin during a funeral, often ornate.
- 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.
- 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge 2008, p. 91:
