Crossword clues for baldachin
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.]
(Arch.) A structure in form of a canopy, sometimes supported by columns, and sometimes suspended from the roof or projecting from the wall; generally placed over an altar; as, the baldachin in St. Peter's.
A portable canopy borne over shrines, etc., in procession. [1913 Webster] [Written also baldachino, baldaquin, etc.]
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of baldacchin English)
WordNet
n. ornamented canopy supported by columns or suspended from a roof or projected from a wall (as over an altar)
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, where such a structure is more correctly called a ciborium when it is sufficiently architectural in form. A cloth of honour is a simpler cloth hanging vertically behind the throne, usually continuing to form a canopy. It can also be used for similar canopies in interior design, for example above beds, and for processional canopies used in formal state ceremonies such as coronations, held up by four or more men with poles attached to the corners of the cloth.
"Baldachin" was originally a luxurious type of cloth from Baghdad, from which name the word is derived, in English as "baudekin" and other spellings. Matthew Paris records that Henry III of England wore a robe "de preciosissimo baldekino" at a ceremony at Westminster Abbey in 1247. The word for the cloth became the word for the ceremonial canopies made from the cloth.
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.