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Catafalque

noun
1.
A decorated bier on which a coffin rests in state during a funeral.





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... W. C. Brann were prepared early Saturday morning and lay in state all day at the residence on North Fifth Street. Hundreds of ladies visited the home and viewed the face of the Apostle. It was natural as life itself. He lay upon a catafalque in the parlors at home and the visitors passed around the lifeless form, looked upon the face and ...
— Volume 12 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann


Words linked to "Catafalque" :   bier


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