| 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. |
| I opened the door, saw a covered room and a catafalque in the middle: Therefore a hall for putting on the bier! |
| Mr Byrd's coffin was brought to the Senate and laid on the same catafalque that was used at Abraham Lincoln's state funeral. |
| I can tell you that the few occasions that I have been involved with armed gaurds at catafalque parties that Navy Cadets have never sloped arms with.303 rifles. |
| Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments. |
