PREFERRED TERM
Canopy (civil)
DEFINITION
- n. From the 15th century "canape" and the French "canapé" or "conopée". A textile covering suspended to cover a throne, a bed, couch, shrine, etc. to protect or shade the place it covers.
BROADER CONCEPT
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Livingstone, E.A. (ed.) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014; Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Dais (objet civil)
French
Baldacchino
Italian
Dosel
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/737
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