Etymology

baldacchin

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Today it means: A rich, embroidered brocade used for clothing in the Middle Ages, the web being gold and the woof silk. Full definition →

French baldaquin ← Italian baldacchino
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  1. Italian · derived frombaldacchino
  2. French · borrowed frombaldaquin
  3. English todaybaldacchin

Borrowed from French baldaquin, from Italian baldacchino, from Baldacca, a variant of Baghdad, where the material originally came from.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.