Rooflike component suspended from the ceiling over the head of a bed, usually domed or cone-shaped.
Exterior ornament of the shield.
1 The bed is like the baldaquin of St. Peter's, and the pictures frighten me.
2 The Professor may have taken it from Al-Madinah-perhapsfrom the mysterious inner passage of the baldaquin where the treasures of the place lie.
3 An enormous bed à baldaquin was trimmed with the same toile and each post had a great bunch of white feathers on top.
4 After the Fatihah pronounced at Omar's tomb, and the short inspection of the Hujrah, Shaykh Hamid led me round the south-east corner of the baldaquin .
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