altarcloth

plural altarcloths

1. alternativeAlternative form of altar cloth.

   Pawning the altarcloth powerfully symbolized this renunciation of the abbey's liberty.

   2006, Susan Boynton, Shaping a Monastic Identity, page 29

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   The rest she had made into an altarcloth. She had used scrpas left over from the making of the cloth to decorate her niece's tunic.

   1983, Angela M. Lucas, Women in the Middle Ages, page 41

   The altarcloth is bordered by a frieze depicting a running hound embroidered on a crimson ground.

   1994, Göran Schildt, Alvar Aalto, page 262

   I have excluded items that certainly required the skills of a master artisan, such as chalices, priestly vestments, and altarcloths, but where the testator did not specifically call for "images," "pictures," or "figures."

   1997, Samuel Kline Cohn, The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death