Crossword-Solution: BALDACHIN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Baldachin | n. | A rich brocade; baudekin. |
| Baldachin | n. | 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. |
| Baldachin | n. | A portable canopy borne over shrines, etc., in procession. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “BALDACHIN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| baldaquin | 1 answer |
| richly ornamented silk and gold brocade | 1 answer |
| RICH brocade | 2 answers |
| columbarium | 2 answers |
| EMBROIDERED fabric | 4 answers |
| CHURCH altar part | 10 answers |
| brocade | 12 answers |
| Canopy | 35 answers |
| HOLY of Holies, containment of the | 41 answers |
| holy place | 44 answers |
| silk | 44 answers |
| Church part | 55 answers |
| Fabric | 112 answers |
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Sentences with BALDACHIN (5)
See Baldachin.] The richest kind of stuff used in garments in the Middle Ages, the web being gold, and the woof silk, with embroidery : Ð made originally at Bagdad.
The clouds had rolled upward, obscuring the sunshine and hanging like a funereal baldachin above the projecting cornices of Doctor Lombard’s street, and Wyant walked for some distance in the shade of the beetling palace fronts before his eye fell on a doorway surmounted by a sallow marble hand.
All at once the doors of the cathedral were thrown open, and under a gold-embroidered baldachin borne by four priests appeared the pious bishop, carrying in his uplifted right hand the casket containing the bones of Saint Cassian.
Only at the end the magnificence was too much crowded: for the envoys; the hereditary officers; the emperor and king, under the canopy (/Baldachin/); the three spiritual electors, who immediately followed; the /schöffen/ and senators, dressed in black; the gold-embroidered canopy (/Himmel/),--all seemed only one mass, which, moved by a single will, splendidly harmonious, and thus stepping from the temple amid the sound of the bells, beamed towards us as something holy.
The 'baldachin' or 'baudekin' is from Baldacco, the Italian form of the name of the city of Bagdad, from whence the costly silk of this canopy originally came.