BALDACHIN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ornamented canopy supported by columns or suspended from a roof or projected from a wall (as over an altar)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("baldachin" is a kind of...):

canopy (a covering (usually of cloth) that serves as a roof to shelter an area from the weather)

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