Definitions for baldachins

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baldachins bal·da·chin

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

IPA: /ˈbæl də kɪn, ˈbɔl-/

Baldachins is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 646 anagrams from letters in baldachins (aabcdhilns).

Definitions for baldachins

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 baldachins

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 baldachins

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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