Catafalque vs Sarcophagus - What's the difference?
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A platform used to display or convey a coffin during a funeral, often ornate.
* 1942 , The Giant Joshua by Maurine Whipple
* 2007 , Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon , Blue Bridge 2008, p. 91:
A stone coffin, often inscribed or decorated with sculpture.
(informal) The cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed reactor at the power station in Chernobyl, Ukraine.
As nouns the difference between catafalque and sarcophagus
is that catafalque is a platform used to display or convey a coffin during a funeral, often ornate while sarcophagus is a stone coffin, often inscribed or decorated with sculpture.catafalque
English
(wikipedia catafalque)Alternative forms
* catafalcoNoun
(en noun)- Until noon, the hour of the funeral, crowds continued to file by the plain pine coffin on its plain flower-covered catafalque .
- 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.