baldacchin

Etymology
, from, from , a variant of Baghdad, where the material originally came from.

Noun

 * 1)  A rich, embroidered brocade used for clothing in the Middle Ages, the web being gold and the woof silk.
 * 2)  A canopy suspended over an altar or throne, originally made of this fabric; a ciborium.
 * 3)  A building in form of a canopy, or a crown supported by pillars for the covering of an altar; a canopy carried over the host in Roman Catholic countries.
 * 1)  A building in form of a canopy, or a crown supported by pillars for the covering of an altar; a canopy carried over the host in Roman Catholic countries.

Translations

 * Belarusian: балдахі́н
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: baldachýn
 * Danish: baldakin
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: baldahhiin
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: baldequín
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Latin: baldachinum
 * Latvian: baldačins
 * Lithuanian: baldakimas
 * Macedonian: балдахи́н
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: baldakin
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: балда̀хӣн
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: baldachýn
 * Slovene: baldahin
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: baldaken
 * Ukrainian: