altarcloth
English
Noun
altarcloth (plural altarcloths)
- Alternative form of altar cloth
- 1983, Angela M. Lucas, Women in the Middle Ages, page 41:
- The rest she had made into an altarcloth. She had used scrpas left over from the making of the cloth to decorate her niece's tunic.
- 1994, Göran Schildt, Alvar Aalto, page 262:
- The altarcloth is bordered by a frieze depicting a running hound embroidered on a crimson ground.
- 1997, Samuel Kline Cohn, The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death:
- I have excluded items that certainly required the skills of a master artisan, such as chalices, priestly vestments, and altarcloths, but where the testator did not specifically call for "images," "pictures," or "figures."
- 2006, Susan Boynton, Shaping a Monastic Identity, page 29:
- Pawning the altarcloth powerfully symbolized this renunciation of the abbey's liberty.