altarcloth

With the abbot's leave and the assistance of Prior Robert, who had the most comprehensive knowledge of the riches of the house and demonstrated its treasures with pride, Cadfael examined every hanging, tapestry and altarcloth the abbey possessed, but none of them matched the quivering fragments he brought to the comparison.

A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old 2010

Once I had found and preserved the filaments from it, we searched for it throughout the abbey precincts, for it could have been a hanging or an altarcloth, but we have found nothing to match these fragments.

A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old 2010

Striking while the iron was hot, she offered her services to mend the altarcloth; to darn and “get up” a surplice; to over-sew the frayed edges of a cassock.

Ultima Thule 2003

"You can come out, now, Tanager," said the Priest over his shoulder as he folded and put away a spotless white altarcloth.

The Eagle And The Nightingale Lackey, Mercedes 1995

We left her ready on her altar, with a plain blanket bound round her, and an old, frayed altarcloth stretched over her.

The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992

Three candles of uneven length sputtered on a dirty altarcloth.

The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989

The altarcloth, a liturgical tablecloth, covers the top of the altar and extends down both sides.

A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975

The altarcloth, a liturgical tablecloth, covers the top of the altar and extends down both sides.

A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975

She was proficient in the making of preserves and unguents, could play the harpsichord and the virginals acceptably, could embroider an altarcloth to admiration, and, in spite of a trivial lameness in walking, could dance a coranto or a saraband against any woman between two seas.

The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918

She was proficient in the making of preserves and unguents, could play the harpsichord and the virginals acceptably, could embroider an altarcloth to admiration, and, in spite of a trivial lameness in walking, could dance a coranto or a saraband against any woman between two seas.

The Certain Hour 1909