baldacchin
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French baldaquin, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian baldacchino, from Baldacca (“Baghdad”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
baldacchin (plural baldacchins)
- A rich, embroidered brocade used for clothing in the Middle Ages, the web being gold and the woof silk.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Nares to this entry?)
- A canopy suspended over an altar or throne, originally made of this fabric; a ciborium.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 682:
- Bernini had already provided the chief coup de théâtre of the basilica's interior, the monumental bronze canopy or baldachino over the high altar and tomb of St Peter.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 682:
- A building in form of a canopy, or a crown supported by pillars for the covering of an altar; a canopy carried over the host in Roman Catholic countries.
- [1721, N[athan] Bailey, “BALDACHIN”, in An Universal Etymological English Dictionary: […], London: […] E. Bell, J. Darby, […], →OCLC, column 1:
- BALDACHIN is a Building in form of a Canopy, or Crown ſupported by Pillars, often ſerving for the Covering of an Altar; Alſo a Canopy carried over the Hoſt in Popiſh Countries.]
Translations
canopy suspended over an altar or throne
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