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Ornamented canopy supported by columns or suspended from a roof or projected from a wall (as over an altar)
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baldachin
Word definitions for baldachin in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. ornamented canopy supported by columns or suspended from a roof or projected from a wall (as over an altar)
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A baldachin , or baldaquin (from ), is a canopy of state typically placed over an altar or throne . It had its beginnings as a cloth canopy, but in other cases it is a sturdy, permanent architectural feature, particularly over high altars in cathedrals ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Baldachin \Bal"da*chin\, n. [LL. baldachinus, baldechinus, a canopy of rich silk carried over the host; fr. Bagdad, It. Baldacco, a city in Turkish Asia from whence these rich silks came: cf. It. baldacchino. Cf. Baudekin .] A rich brocade; baudekin. [Obs.] ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of baldacchin English)
Usage examples of baldachin.
Her real name was Joan Struthio, and she was met for club dinner with Harry Baldachin, Clement Flood, and Charles Broadman, all outstanding in the mentality set, because she had a publicity man who arranged such things.
Harry Baldachin wheezed and peered out from under his thickening orbital ridges.
Harry Baldachin, Clement Flood, Charles Broad-man, and Sally Strumpet were met once more in the Mountain Top Club.
But your rumor is right, Baldachin, I do have my craft hidden somewhere on this very mountain.
Harry Baldachin, Clement Flood, Charles Broadman, and Sally Strumpet were met once more in the Mountain Top Club.
Quentin peeped behind the trailing baldachin, expecting the King to emerge from behind it at any moment.
Behind them, on a baldachin carried by four giants, there she was, the princess.
The framework for a baldachin had been erected the day before, at the spot in the center where the Stone of Destiny was to stand.
His Majesty sat on a low dais, in a gilded and padded chair beneath a baldachin hung behind and on either side with weighty purple velvet to shut out the draughts.
We went into my sitting room, which was on the front of the house, and we had a good view of my bedroom through the open sliding double doors, and there was my enormous and regal bed, the baldachin padded in red satin, and the matching red chairs, thick and inviting, scattered from bedroom to sitting room, and between the front windows of the sitting room, my computer and desk.
I liked the white canopy over our heads better than the satin-lined baldachin in my own room up here.
Never had I loved my fancy bed so much as when I was lying under that baldachin over there with her.
Under a magnificently embroidered baldachin blazed the ducal arms: a unicorn on a field gules.
The huge old-fashioned, four-posted bed, overhung by a baldachin of carved wood with satin linings, occupied a deep alcove.
Ambrogio, Milan, where the tympana of the well-known baldachin are of this material, and contain modelled figures.