baldacchin
English
Alternative forms
- baldacchino
- baldachin
- baldachino
- baldakin
- baldaquin
- baudekin
- baudekyn
- baudkin
- baudkyn
- bawdekin
Etymology
From French baldaquin, Italian baldacchino, from Baldacca (“Baghdad”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbaldəkɪn/
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- A canopy suspended over an altar or throne, originally made of this fabric; a ciborium.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 crown supported by pillars for the covering of an altar; a canopy carried over the host in Roman Catholic countries.
- 1726, Nathan Bailey, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, third edition, J. Darby et al., p. 96:
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