Baldaquin
also, baudekin. textiles. a silk brocade interwoven with gold or silver threads, used chiefly for ceremonial purposes.
architecture. a permanent ornamental canopy, as above a freestanding altar or throne.
a portable canopy carried in religious processions.
historical examples
it is quite isolated, and has neither flanking columns nor a baldaquin.
the cathedrals and churches of the rhine francis miltoun
noun
a richly ornamented silk and gold brocade
a canopy of fabric or stone over an altar, shrine, or throne in a christian church or carried in christian religious processions over an object of veneration
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