catafalque

catafalque

美 ['kæt?fælk] 　英 ['kæt?fælk]

• n.靈柩臺
• 網絡靈柩車；靈棺；停靈臺

詞形變化

復數：catafalques  

英漢雙解

英漢解釋

n.	1. 靈柩臺;靈柩車

英英解釋

n.	1. a raised and decorated platform on which the coffin of a distinguished person lies in state before or during a funeral 2. in the Roman Catholic Church, a structure resembling a coffin that is used to represent a dead person at a requiem mass given after the person's funeral

例句

Mr Byrd's coffin was brought to the Senate and laid on the same catafalque that was used at Abraham Lincoln's state funeral.

伯德的棺材被抬入參議院，放置于當年亞伯拉罕?林肯國葬時使用的同一張靈柩抬上。