Definitions for baldachin

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baldachin bal·da·chin

Spelling: [bal-duh-kin, bawl-]

IPA: /ˈbæl də kɪn, ˈbɔl-/

Baldachin is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 333 anagrams from letters in baldachin (aabcdhiln).

Definitions for baldachin

noun

1. Also, baudekin. Textiles. a silk brocade interwoven with gold or silver threads, used chiefly for ceremonial purposes.
2. Architecture. a permanent ornamental canopy, as above a freestanding altar or throne.
3. a portable canopy carried in religious processions.

Origin of baldachin

1250-1300; earlier baldakin Medieval Latin baldakinus Italian baldacchino, equivalent to Baldacc(o) Baghdad (famous as a source of silk brocades) + -ino -ine¹

Examples for baldachin

In the hall Prince Rameses sat on an elevated chair beneath a baldachin, while at the entrance door appeared the herald.

He placed it neatly on the crown-shaped ornament in the centre of the baldachin.

Two of the biggest, sir, stood in the adytum to form the baldachin over the Ark.

The litter stopped before a baldachin under which was an ebony throne on an elevation.

The baldachin is, like the Retablo, of wood covered with thin plates of metal.

Under the baldachin hovered a gilded Cupid, spotted and faded, with his arrow aimed at the bed.

The King presided, sitting under a baldachin with his consort, Queen Johanna, at his right and his sons at his left.

Its interior will be of pure gold, very massive, and it hath a baldachin of velvet, embroidered with our ducal arms.

The most striking object in the interior is the magnificent Romanesque baldachin above the high altar.

It is probable that these columns belonged originally to the baldachin over the high altar.