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Definitions
a decorated bier on which a coffin rests in state during a funeral
Word origin
Borrowed from French catafalque, from Italian catafalco, from Vulgar Latin *catafalicum, from Ancient Greek κατά (katá, “down”) + Latin fala (“scaffolding, wooden siege tower”), which is from Etruscan. Also influenced scaffold.
Used in a sentence
“Until noon, the hour of the funeral, crowds continued to file by the plain pine coffin on its plain flower-covered catafalque.”
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