catafalque

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The Coffin is then carried to the Catafalque in the Quire.

From Washington Times • Apr. 16, 2021

The remaining justices awaited her arrival in the Supreme Court’s Great Hall, where a ceremony took place as Ginsburg’s casket rests on the Lincoln Catafalque, the platform that held the casket of President Abraham Lincoln.

From Fox News • Sep. 23, 2020

Supreme Court police officers served as pallbearers, placing the casket on the Lincoln Catafalque, which Congress has lent for the ceremony.

From Washington Post • Jul. 21, 2019

Bush was the only CIA director to become president, and former agency directors William Webster, George Tenet and John Brennan joined current Director Gina Haspel in front of the Lincoln Catafalque on Tuesday morning.

From Fox News • Dec. 4, 2018

Sirs, when I woke, there was a broad bright shaft Of moonlight, slanting through an Eastern pane Full on her tomb and that black Catafalque.

From Collected Poems Volume Two by Noyes, Alfred