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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Baldachin

The daïs or canopy under which, in Roman Catholic processions, the Holy Sacrament is carried (Italian, baldacchino, so-called from Baldacco (Italian for Bagdad), where the cloth was made). Also the canopy above an altar.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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