How to Use catafalque in a Sentence

catafalque

noun

• The coffin will rest atop a platform called a catafalque in the quire.
  — Ruby Mellen, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022
• The catafalque is constructed out of wood and draped in a black cloth.
  — Carol Robinson, AL.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• Mourners will file past the catafalque to pay their respects.
  — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2022
• The coffin will be carried inside to the choir or Quire, placed on a catafalque, and the service will begin.
  — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2021
• Birds flew in and out of the rooms, says the professor, and for years the widowed poet kept her embalmed husband on view in a catafalque with a glass top.
  — J. S. Marcus, WSJ, 25 July 2018
• The catafalque is now on display in the Capitol Visitors Center.
  — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 30 Aug. 2018
• The cortege arrived at Westminster Hall’s gates precisely 38 minutes later, at the top of the hour, and the coffin was placed on a catafalque, or stand.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• The catafalque is a wooden platform first used at the Capitol when President Lincoln lay in state, with his casket resting on top of it.
  — Fox News, 22 Oct. 2019
• Graham's coffin rests on a catafalque, a wooden stand, which was constructed by the architect of the Capitol for such ceremonies.
  — Michael D. Shear, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Feb. 2018
• Her small coffin on a rich purple platform called a catafalque, surrounded by soldiers arrayed in royal red, bear-skinned heads bowed.
  — WSJ, 17 Sep. 2022
• The coffin was placed on a catafalque, a decorated wooden frame, which was built to hold President Abraham Lincoln’s coffin in 1865.
  — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2017
• Her coffin, raised on a catafalque in tiny might and swaddled in the royal banner, commanded focus even in the ornate, cavernous chamber of Westminster Hall.
  — Richard Morgan, Town & Country, 15 Sep. 2022
• McCain’s casket will rest atop the wooden catafalque, a platform constructed for Lincoln’s funeral.
  — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 30 Aug. 2018
• Soldiers carry the coffins of deceased British monarchs, following an incident in 1901 when horses pulling Queen Victoria’s catafalque were spooked and her coffin nearly spilled into the street.
  — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2022
• Detail of 22 sergeants deposit Lincoln coffin into Indiana Statehouse on catafalque awaiting mourners.
  — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 30 Apr. 2018

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