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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cloth of silk or other material in which it was formerly customary to wrap or veil the pyx. Also Corpus Christi cloth, pyx-kerchief, pyx-veil.
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The "pyx-cover", or "pyx-cloth", of which we sometimes read in medieval inventories, was a veil which hung over the pyx as it was suspended above the altar, and it was consequently a cloth of considerable size.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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