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What is a catafalque?

What is a catafalque? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A platform used to display or convey a coffin during a funeral, often ornate.
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I can tell you that the few occasions that I have been involved with armed gaurds at catafalque parties that Navy Cadets have never sloped arms with.303 rifles.
The Queen had already arrived and came to join the procession as it was borne inside to the waiting catafalque and to the start of the lying-in-state.
Propped up at one end by a broken-off marble Ionian capital is a long, slanting wooden board, suggesting a collapsed catafalque.
Over the weekend his body lay in state in a silver mounted coffin on a catafalque in front of the Speaker's platform.
These objects were probably mounted at the heads of poles supporting a catafalque or canopy.
The bearer party lifts the coffin from the catafalque in Westminster Hall and carries it to the gun carriage outside the North Door.

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