• n. From the 15th century "canape" and the French "canapé" or "conopée". A textile covering suspended to cover an altar, religious image or even the Blessed Sacrament.

• Liturgical paraments

• 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]

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