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CATAFALQUE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A decorated bier on which a coffin rests in state during a funeral
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("catafalque" is a kind of...):
bier (a stand to support a corpse or a coffin prior to burial)