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baldachin, -quin|ˈbældəkɪn|
Forms: 6–8 baldakin(e, 7 balduquino, 7–9 baldacchino, 8–9 baldachin, 9 -chine, -chino, baldaquin: see also baudekin.
[a. F., Sp. baldaquin, It. baldacchino, in med.L. baldakinus, -ekinus, baudaquinus, -ekinus, f. Baldacco, It. form of Bagdad, the city in Asia where the material was made. Cf. the earlier baudekin, through OF. baudekin, -quin, usual in sense 1. The It. form baldacchino is also used.]
1. A rich embroidered stuff, originally woven with woof of silk and warp of gold thread; rich brocade.
1598Hakluyt Voy. I. 54 They weare Jackets..of buckeram, skarlet, or Baldakines. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Baldachin, or Baldakin, or Baldekin, popularly Baudekin..a rich kind of cloth. 1880Yule in Birdwood Ind. Arts II. 71 Rich silk and gold brocades were called Baldachini, or in English, Baudekins.
2. A structure in the form of a canopy, either supported on columns, suspended from the roof, or projecting from the wall, placed above an altar, throne, or door-way; so called as having been originally of the material described in prec. sense.
1645Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 110 The room..having a state or balduquino of crimson velvet. Ibid. 145 An elevated throne, and a baldacchino, or canopy of state..over it. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xlviii, The baldaquin of St. Peter's. 1850Browning Christmas Eve, Heave loftier yet the baldachin. 1878M. E. Herbert tr. Hübner's Trav. i. xii. 182 Heavy clouds shroud the tops of the mountains as with a baldachino. |