catafalque
- n a decorated bier on which a coffin rests in state during a funeral
- Chatter was hushed as the catafalque moved slowly past.
- Back in Chicago this week in his familiar Cathedral of the Holy Name on North State Street, the body of the Bishop of Charity lay in state on a black-draped catafalque before the .
- Audiences went away from Frankenstein wondering whether the monster really died in the blazing mill that seemed to be his catafalque.