| I opened the door, saw a covered room and a catafalque in the middle: Therefore a hall for putting on the bier! |
| They were driven back by police and soldiers, and the coffin was taken in and placed on a towering catafalque. |
| Over the weekend his body lay in state in a silver mounted coffin on a catafalque in front of the Speaker's platform. |
| These objects were probably mounted at the heads of poles supporting a catafalque or canopy. |
| Mr Byrd's coffin was brought to the Senate and laid on the same catafalque that was used at Abraham Lincoln's state funeral. |
| By last night, almost 50,000 people were expected to have filed past the catafalque. |
