A catafalque is of course what is used for the absolution of the dead without a body present. From Wordnik.com. [Reader Question: Constructing the Catafalque] Reference
And here's a word that many of us are only today beginning to understand what it means, it's a catafalque, which is a platform. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2004] Reference
His body lie in a casket on top of this catafalque. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2004] Reference
Julien, who was now standing in front of the catafalque. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But talk a little bit about this Capitol Rotunda catafalque. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2004] Reference
The tomb was a simple catafalque, spread with the usual cloth. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
A butcher's bench was the catafalque of unfortunate Ferdinand von. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference
Of course, this was before the Lincoln catafalque was constructed. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2004] Reference
It will be -- the casket will actually be put up on the catafalque. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2004] Reference
The casket is going to be taken into the museum, put on a catafalque inside. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2007] Reference
This black cloth they're working on sits on top of what is known as the catafalque. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2004] Reference
Two large ones adorned the grand altar, and eight of them hung from the catafalque. From Wordnik.com. [The Funeral of Duke Philip the Good] Reference
The crate will represent the catafalque, you see, and the recumbent figure will be life-size. From Wordnik.com. [Tied Up in Tinsel]
Before he reached the door she said, “I think you made a wonderful job of that catafalque.”. From Wordnik.com. [Tied Up in Tinsel]
“The mirage of fancy invested the huge catafalque and its gloomy pall with peculiar charms.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
The mirage medium of Fancy invested the huge catafalque and its gloomy pall with peculiar charms. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
The casket has been placed once again on a catafalque here at the museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2007] Reference
Soon after, a rich catafalque appeared in the square before the Palace, hung with mourning wreaths. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
And standing there, the four guardsmen of the Household Calvary, standing vigil around the catafalque. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2002] Reference
The catafalque itself was built atop a small platform or stage equipped with a bier to hold the coffin. From Wordnik.com. [The Funeral of Duke Philip the Good] Reference
The catafalque is made of rough pine boards and is covered with black cloth designed by Benjamin French. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2004] Reference
The catafalque was stripped of its black and red cloth covering, and the wood-work was totally destroyed. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
Behind him rose an enormous chest, higher than a catafalque, and furnished with rings like hanging crowns. From Wordnik.com. [Salammbo] Reference
And circling that platform, that catafalque as it's called, the platform upon which that casket is lying in state. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2004] Reference
He thought of the improvised catafalque of the bed, the outstretched figure, the hands composed, the outspread hair. From Wordnik.com. [Tour de Force]
Old Dionysios was lying in the banquet hall, on a catafalque hung with black and purple, in a chest lined with lead. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
Nor was this all, for Don Quixote had perceived that the dead body on the catafalque was that of the fair Altisidora. From Wordnik.com. [Don Quixote] Reference
The tomb, seen through a square aperture like those above described, is a long catafalque, covered with a black pall. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
After me came the woman of the household, keening; then a great catafalque with his arms and ensigns and trophies of war. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
The coffin is draped in the standard of the Queen Mother, now being placed on the catafalque, where she will lie in state. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2002] Reference
She laughed dismally, raising her face in the gloom of the bed canopy that enshrouded them like the shadows of a catafalque. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
The count de Beauvoir reached Bangkok just in time to see the royal catafalque, of which he gives a somewhat amusing account. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference
Between these theaters, a catafalque that has supported a dozen presidential caskets, starting with Lincoln's, is on display. From Wordnik.com. [In the Nation's Capital, An Uninviting Addition . . .] Reference
The catafalque has been used for all of those who have lain in state in the Capitol Rotunda, professor Dallek, since that time. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2004] Reference
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