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catafalque [ˈkætəˌfælk] n
a temporary raised platform on which a body lies in state before or during a funeral [from French, from Italian catafalco, of uncertain origin; compare scaffold] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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Most of the composition was made up of architectural components, but three elements from nature imported a sense of loss and uprootedness: a dead, spiky, sun-starved cedar tree at the entrance; a massive piece of Pacific Coast driftwood resting in a steel and milled-wood armature nearby; and, in the room with the mandala, several very large dried water-lily pads resting on platforms as if on catafalques. The Italian Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Catafalques. I grew up with mournful black chasubles, the dirge-like "Dies Irae," and doleful black-draped catafalques. |
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