PREFERRED TERM
Custody
DEFINITION
- n. From the Latin "custōdia" and the French "custode" meaning vessel. It refers to the representation of the container, the vessel or box used for holding or carrying the consecrated bread or host of the Eucharist to be displayed to the faithfuls.
BROADER CONCEPT
- Iconography
- wd:Q335661 (Silk Heritage Thesaurus)
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]
BELONGS TO GROUP
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Ciboire
French
Ostensorio
Italian
Custodia
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/782
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