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Tabernacular

Tabernacular \Tab`er*nac"u*lar\, a.

  1. Of or pertaining to a tabernacle, especially the Jewish tabernacle.

  2. Formed in latticework; latticed.
    --T. Warton.

  3. Of or pertaining to huts or booths; hence, common; low. ``Horribly tabernacular.''
    --De Quincey.

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tabernacular

a. 1 Pertaining to a tabernacle. 2 Of the style or character of an architectural tabernacle; formed in latticework; latticed. 3 (label en rare) Of or pertaining to huts or tents; common; low.

Usage examples of "tabernacular".

The world changed about them with their changing mood, until presently it had become, as it were, a tabernacular beauty about their meetings, and the stars were no more than flowers of light beneath the feet of their love, and the dawn and sunset the coloured hangings by the way.