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BALDACHIN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does baldachin mean?
• BALDACHIN (noun)
The noun BALDACHIN has 1 sense:
1. ornamented canopy supported by columns or suspended from a roof or projected from a wall (as over an altar)
Familiarity information: BALDACHIN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ornamented canopy supported by columns or suspended from a roof or projected from a wall (as over an altar)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("baldachin" is a kind of...):
canopy (a covering (usually of cloth) that serves as a roof to shelter an area from the weather)
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