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• catafalco

語源

Borrowed from French catafalque, from Italian catafalco, from Vulgar Latin *catafalicum, from Ancient Greek κατά (katá, “down”) + Latin fala (“scaffolding, wooden siege tower”), which is from Etruscan. Also influenced scaffold.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈkatəfalk/

名詞

catafalque (plural catafalques)

1. A platform used to display or convey a coffin during a funeral, often ornate.
   • 1942, Maurine Whipple, The Giant Joshua:

     Until noon, the hour of the funeral, crowds continued to file by the plain pine coffin on its plain flower-covered catafalque.

   • 1976, “China Yearbook 1976”, in The Hallmark‎, Taipei: China Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 2:

     After another brief funeral rite at Tzu Hu, the presidential casket was laid on the catafalque in the central hall of a temporary “mausoleum” and sealed with marble slabs. There, the body of President Chiang will rest pending permanent burial in the mainland after its recovery.

   • 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, published 2008, page 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.

Further reading

• catafalque on Wikipedia.Wikipedia