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- noun Plural form of
baldachin .
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Examples
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Around the altar/sepulchre are loggia-like architectures with balustrades and baldachins, framing reliefs of the Passion carved in 1483 after the engravings by Schongauer:
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The canopied bed stood on a small dais, with baldachins of ostrich feathers sprouting from the corners of its damask drapes, and a pair of matching brocaded chairs squatted comfortably before a huge fireplace.
Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992
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Canopies or baldachins, such as the one carried over Philips corpse, appeared in France beginning in the late fourteenth century, although a canopy had been used in 1322 for the funeral of
The Funeral of Duke Philip the Good Edward A. Tabri 1990
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Records mostly in clerical Latin, speak of these as curtains for doorways, dossers for covering seats, and the backs of benches, and baldachins, as well as carpets for use on the floor.
The Tapestry Book Helen Churchill Hungerford Candee 1905
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There were pitchers, plates, and spoons of pure gold, costly robes, and baldachins.
The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt Boles��aw Prus 1879
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We find vermilion altar cloths, curtains of emerald silk, a cope of velvet, crimson and violet with orpheys of cloth of gold, another of rose damask, satin dalmatics for the deacons, baldachins figured with hawks and falcons of Cyprus gold.
Là-bas Keene [Translator] Wallace 1877
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The Gothic construction afforded no broad, generous spaces for sculpture; all plastic work must be confined in limited spaces between columns and baldachins, or in arched niches, or between narrow flutings; and though something had been done to vary the upright stiffness of the statues of its earliest days, there was no freedom for the realistic and natural tendencies of the Renaissance art to develop in.
A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Clara Erskine Clement Waters 1875
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Around the altar / sepulchre are loggia-like architectures with balustrades and baldachins, framing reliefs of the Passion carved in 1483 after the engravings by Schongauer:
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Around the altar / sepulchre are loggia-like architectures with balustrades and baldachins, framing reliefs of the Passion carved in 1483 after the engravings by Schongauer:
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