catafalque
[kat-uh-fawk, -fawlk, -falk]
noun
1. a raised structure on which the body of a deceased person lies or is carried in state.
2. a hearse.
Origin
French, Italian, Late Latin
1635-45; < French < Italian catafalco < Late Latin *catafalicum scaffold, equivalent to cata- [a prefix meaning “down,” “against,” “back,” occurring originally in loanwords from Greek (cataclysm; catalog; catalepsy)] + fal (a) wooden siege tower + -icum, neuter of -icus -ic
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