Rich embroidered fabric, originally made with warp of gold thread and woof of silk; in later usage the term broadened to include any rich brocade or rich shot silk.
The coffin was placed upon a rich catafalque beneath a velvet baldachin.
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The bed loomed mysteriously in one corner with its baldachin of Gobelin tapestry.
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To protect the altar a baldachin has been erected over it.
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So they walked on, followed by the Roman princes, bearing a splendid baldachin.
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The litter stopped before a baldachin under which was an ebony throne on an elevation.
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Two of the biggest, sir, stood in the adytum to form the baldachin over the Ark.
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Under the baldachin hovered a gilded Cupid, spotted and faded, with his arrow aimed at the bed.
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Even the magnificent bronzes of the Pantheon were stripped to make the baldachin under the dome of St. Peter's.
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She stared up at the tasseled baldachin with its furled draperies, and fingered the lace covering and the silken comforter.
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Thus altered, the dolmen served as a baldachin or canopy over the stone Christian altar that is still in place beneath it.
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In fact he recognized beneath the purple baldachin his mother among court ladies, and opposite, on a low stool, the vice-pharaoh, Herhor.
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She rode beneath a purple baldachin, which the doctors of Ferrara-thatis, the members of the faculties of law, medicine, and mathematics-supportedin turn.
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There were pitchers, plates, and spoons of pure gold, costly robes, and baldachins.
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The fragrance arising from the carefully-cultivated flower-beds was delightful; the kiosks and baldachins were so charming!
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The coffin was placed upon a rich catafalque beneath a velvet baldachin.
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The bed loomed mysteriously in one corner with its baldachin of Gobelin tapestry.