catafalque

Example Sentences

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It was newly furnished with furniture as unlike as possible to the mahogany catafalques.

From A Country Gentleman and his Family by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

The weeping women, the monsters, the mourners and attendants, the gigantic catafalques, and the immense crowd, formed one of the strangest sights I ever contemplated.

From Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod by Vay, P?ter

Three catafalques followed, the first a most imposing bier.

From The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) by De Benneville, James S. (James Seguin)

Its furniture was almost entirely of the same date as the house, which means dingy carpets, curtains of harsh and unpliable stuff, and immense catafalques of mahogany in the shape of sideboards, arm-chairs, and beds.

From A Country Gentleman and his Family by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

Her apartments are a perfect series of catafalques, and seem to have been upholstered by an undertaker.

From The Cross of Berny by Fendall, Florence