Baldachin

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of baldacchin. alt-of, alternative

    "She rode beneath a purple baldachin, which the doctors of Ferrara--that is, the members of the faculties of law, medicine, and mathematics--supported in turn."

  2. 2
    ornamented canopy supported by columns or suspended from a roof or projected from a wall (as over an altar) wordnet

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canopychrismalcorporalcovershade

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"She rode beneath a purple baldachin, which the doctors of Ferrara--that is, the members of the faculties of law, medicine, and mathematics--supported in turn."

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