10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CATAFALCO»
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El. Catafalco. de. Rosas. 2 December 2009 Location: near North Germantown
and Friars Point (Cordova, TN) Note: Wrote this poem after reading a similarly
titled legend from Mexico's cultural history. While listening to Anna Torroja's
album ...
Catafalco agreed that this would be a good thing for the kid. After some brief
pleasantries, he hung up. He sat and thought for a while, lacing his fingers across
his pear of a belly. Catafalco was a tall, heavy, untidy man in his late fifties, with a
...
Robert K. Tanenbaum, 2002
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An etymological dictionary of the romance languages
In support of this der. cf. catafalco, cataletto. Others propose xatatyfi(ìiov , or xcctà
and xvfi(ìog a cavity, or the Sabine cumba, cf. Fcstus: cumbam Sabini vocant eam
quam militares lecticam. Catafalco It., Sp. cadafalso cadahalso cadalso, ...
4
The Martyrs: Or, The Triumph of the Christian Religion
Lighted through a dome of cedar placed in the centre of the church, and
surrounded by a catafalco of white marble, the holy tomb serves as an altar in the
most sublime solemnities.! An obscurity, fa- * Socrates and Sozomen both assert
that the ...
François-Réné vicomte de Chateaubriand, 1812
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Travels througt Germany, Bohemia...descriptions of the ...
Preparatives In the mean time orders were given for erecting the Castor a con-
tram doloris, or Catafalco. The college of cardinals fat c lve* every day, giving
audiences to foreign ministers, taking care of the public safety, and issuing the ...
6
A Book about the Clergy
Draped with black cloth the catafalco, or fixed hearse, was the platform on which
were exhibited, in the church of his interment, the deceased man's waxen image,
the heraldic description of his ancestry and honours, his armorial coat and the ...
John Cordy Jeaffreson, 1870
In the midst of this lugubrious pomp stood the catafalco: this splendid structure,
which was erected after the designs of the architect Rossi,* was intended to
represent the temple of glory; and blazing with almost inconceivable splendour,
being ...
8
The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, ...
The figures of eight angels, with reversed torches in one hand and cypress
wreaths in the other, served also to decorate the catafalco; while two ranges of
gilt candelabra, blazing with a profusion of tapers, heightened the melancholy
grandeur ...
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The Christian guardian (and Church of England magazine).
This takes place on the first six days, in the chapel of the choir, and on the last
three at the foot of the catafalco, which has by this time been erected in the
middle of the centre nave of the church. This catafalco is a sort of temporary
monument, ...
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From Bonbon to Cha-cha: Oxford Dictionary of Foreign Words ...
1996 Spectator There must be clear provocation, a satisfactory casus belli.
catafalque /'katafalk/ noun (also (now rare) catafalco /kata'fa1kaU/, plural
catafalco(e)s) M17 French (from Italian catafalco, of unknown origin). 1 A
decorated wooden ...
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CATAFALCO»
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catafalco is used in the context of the following news items.
Monaco, il grande cubo bianco che raffredda il delirio hitleriano
Con la costruzione della Haus der Deutschen Kunst (1937, oggi Haus der Kunst), altro catafalco grigio e granitico, anche l'arte viene ... «il manifesto, Jun 15»
Manzanares vuelve a los ruedos siete meses después
Tanto es así, que para el año 2015 se ha encargado todos sus vestidos en catafalco y azabache. Facebook; Twitter; Ver más. Compartir en la ... «El Mundo, Mar 15»
Il sindaco alla messa per Priebke«Anche noi eseguiamo crimini di …
All'esterno della cappella è stato eretto un catafalco al di sotto del quale è stato collocato un simulacro del feretro dell'ufficiale nazista morto ... «Corriere della Sera, Oct 13»
Un Libro al giorno
... e davanti alla sua bara, adagiata sullo stesso catafalco che accolse le spoglie di Abramo Lincoln, sono sfilate cinquantamila persone. «ANSA, Mar 10»
