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CATAFALQUE (a word of unknown origin, occurring in various forms in many European languages, meaning a funeral scaffold or temporary stage)

CATAFALQUE (a word of unknown origin, occurring in various forms in many See also:
EUROPEAN
European See also:
LANGUAGES
languages, meaning a funeral See also:
SCAFFOLD
SCAFFOLD, SCAFFOLDING (from the O. Fr. escafaut, originally escafalt, modern echafaud, a corruption of the Italian or Spanish calafalco, a platform, especially a canopy over a bier, a catafalque; this word is composed of O. Span. altar, O. Ital. catare, t
scaffold or temporary See also:
STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)
stage) , a movable structure of See also:

wood sometimes richly decorated, erected temporarily at funeral ceremonies in a See also:

church to receive the See also:

COFFIN (from Lat. cophinus, Gr. K64wos, a coffer, chest or basket, but never meaning " coffin " in its present sense)

coffin or effigy of the deceased; also an open See also:

HEARSE (an adaptation of Fr. herse, a harrow, from Lat. hirpex, hirpicem, rake or harrow, Greek aprra;:)

hearse or funeral See also:

CAR (Late Lat. carra)

car .

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