Similarly, even in the simplicity of pre-adolescence, the Walsingham smells-and-bells, with acolytes in lace surplices, prancing round holding aloft a ceremonial umbrella (as Malcolm distantly recalls, this was termed a "baldachino") seemed a trifle OTT.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloggers4Labour] Reference

Above it four small columns with a canopy form a baldachino; and the cross is laid flat upon it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference

The temple is very handsome, the baldachino is superb, and the bronzes and brasses on the altar are specially fine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference

Left, a sofa with rose-coloured curtains above in the form of a baldachino.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Road to Damascus] Reference

Occasionally, the cathedra was covered by a baldachino, e.g. at Torcello and Grado.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

Europe by means of a vessel in the form of a dove, suspended by chains to the baldachino and thus hung above the altar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference

The general, and certainly the earliest custom, both East and West, was to suspend the dove from the ciborium or baldachino.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference

Episcopal thrones that are or were surmounted by a structure similar to a baldachino are those at Torcello, Grado, and Augsburg.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

At the close of the Matins on this day the so-called papal altar under the great bronze baldachino is sprinkled with oil and wine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference

The extremely long sweep of the nave is closed by the precious bronze baldachino 95 feet high, which Urban VI caused to be erected by.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference

The throne can be surmounted by a baldachino only when there is a baldachino above the altar, or when the altar has a ciborium altar over it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

We have a series of horizontal lines; a frieze at the base, then three Virtues; above this the effigy, and finally a Madonna beneath a baldachino.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donatello, by Lord Balcarres] Reference

Abbots have the right to a throne in their own churches, but this throne can only have two steps leading to it, and cannot have a baldachino over it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

In Gothic architecture the vestibule was reduced in size, and became an ornamental baldachino-like structure, which also served as an entrance, as in the cathedral at Freiburg in Baden.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner] Reference

Tabernacle signified in the Middle Ages sometimes a ciborium-altar, a structure resting on pillars and covered with a baldachino that was set over an altar, sometimes an ostensory or monstrance, a tower-shaped vessel for preserving and exhibiting relics and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

At such a time the glowing western light, entering the high windows of the tribune, kindles the scattered masses of colour into sombre bright-ness, scintillates on the great solemn mosaic of the vault, touches the porphyry columns of the superb baldachino with ruby lights, and buries its shining shafts in the deep-toned shadows that hang about frescoes and sculptures and mouldings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italian Hours] Reference

+ in a dove or pyx, surrounded by a cover or receptacle and generally surmounted by a small baldachino, which hung over the altar by a chain or cord.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

This rural baldachino shelters a dancing-floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ball at Sceaux] Reference

The baldachino.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Heart Gossip: The hottest celebrity gossip news - hearted or hated by you!] Reference

Te-Deum filled the Piazza with harmonies -- it was the music of a Triumph indeed: -- the soldiers, the knights, the high functionaries of State, the priests and chanting choirs were all there; but the central figure under the golden baldachino, upheld by the barons of the realm and surrounded with royal honors, was not the Conqueror -- but the victim -- the prey -- the sacrifice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference