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Bier vs Catafalque - What's the difference?

bier | catafalque |

As nouns the difference between bier and catafalque

is that bier is a litter to transport the corpse of a dead person while catafalque is a platform used to display or convey a coffin during a funeral, often ornate.

bier

English

(wikipedia bier)

Noun

(en noun)
  • a litter to transport the corpse of a dead person
  • * 1602 : , act IV scene 5
    • They bore him bare-faced on the bier
  • a platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed
  • A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woollen cloth.
    • (Knight)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    catafalque

    English

    (wikipedia catafalque)

    Alternative forms

    * catafalco

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A platform used to display or convey a coffin during a funeral, often ornate.
  • * 1942 , The Giant Joshua by Maurine Whipple
    • Until noon, the hour of the funeral, crowds continued to file by the plain pine coffin on its plain flower-covered catafalque .
  • * 2007 , Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon , Blue Bridge 2008, p. 91:
    • The period of official mourning was long-drawn-out even by the standards of the day; the funeral ceremony held in Avignon's cathedral lasted a full nine days, with the pope's catafalque hung with black silk beneath candelabra likewise draped in black.