catafalques

• These royal catafalques are costly and magnificent, being covered with plates of gold, while the silks and perfumes consumed with a single body cost thousands of dollars M. de Beauvoir describes an interview with the king, surrounded by ten of his offspring, including the seventy-second child. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873
• Some of the catafalques were spread with white table-cloths, flowers, candles, fruit, and biscuits, which the friends and relations (mostly women and children) of the defunct were discussing in anything but a mournful manner. —  A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán
• Three catafalques followed, the first a most imposing bier. —  The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)
• Her apartments are a perfect series of catafalques, and seem to have been upholstered by an undertaker. —  The Cross of Berny
• There were temples, pyramids, immense catafalques, kiosks, etc., all massively built of tiles. —  A Woman's Journey Round the World

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