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单词 pede-cloth
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pede-clothn.

Forms: 1500s pede-cloath, 1800s pede-cloth.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin ped- , pēs , cloth n.
Etymology: < classical Latin ped-, pēs foot, base (see -ped comb. form) + cloth n. N.E.D. (1904 s.v. pede) gives the pronunciation of the first element as (pīd) /piːd/.
Christian Church. Obsolete (historical in later use).
A cloth or carpet laid at the foot of an altar.
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pede-cloth1539
stage cloth1552
1539 Inventory in S. Gunton Hist. of Church of Peterburgh (1686) 61 Ten Cloaths called Pedecloaths to lye before the high Altar.
1842 Ecclesiologist 1 209 Two specimens of a pede cloth or Altar carpet.
1870 D. Rock Textile Fabrics (S. Kensington Mus.) 66 A carpet..for covering the top of the higher step at the altar, called by some a pede-cloth.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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