cadafal — meaning in English

English meaning

• hearse noun A vehicle specially built to carry a coffin to a funeral or burial.
• hoarding noun A large outdoor advertising board; a billboard.

Senses

cadafal is used for these senses in English:

• hearse A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.
• hoarding (architecture, historical) A roofed wooden shield placed over the battlements of a castle and projecting from them.

hoarding — full definition

1. noun A large outdoor advertising board; a billboard.
2. noun A temporary fence or barrier put up around a construction site.
3. noun A psychological disorder marked by an ongoing need to collect items and severe difficulty discarding them.

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