Gavin
Catafalque = Casket =Coffin?
Aug 22, 2012 6:52 AM
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The term casket can be used to mean a coffin. The terms are interchanged commonly. So an English speaker would know what you meant if you talked about the casket at a funeral. Note that the word casket has other meanings so context may be important. I had never heard the term Catafalque before. But having found it in a dictionary, it is not a coffin. It is the decorated platform that a coffin is placed on. Only used for distinguished persons and apparently it is mobile.
August 22, 2012
Catafalque= A decorated wooden framework supporting the coffin /casket of a distinguished person during a funeral or while lying in state.
August 22, 2012
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