catafalque

noun
🔊/ˈkætəfælk/
🔊/ˈkætəfælk/
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  1. a decorated platform on which the dead body of a famous person is placed before a funeral灵柩台Topics Life stagesc2
    Word Originmid 17th cent.: from French, from Italian catafalco, of unknown origin. Compare with scaffold.