"altar-cloth" meaning in All languages combined

See altar-cloth on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: altar-cloths [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} altar-cloth (plural altar-cloths)
  1. Alternative form of altar cloth Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: altar cloth
    Sense id: en-altar-cloth-en-noun-~OPV9Uav Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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    {
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        {
          "word": "altar cloth"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1832, Louise d'Argenton (fict. name), Louisa; or, The virtuous villager, page 135:",
          "text": "The tabernacle was covered with dust ; the candlesticks were grown black, not having been cleaned for years ; the altar-cloths were soiled, and almost in rags.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Émile Zola (Translation by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly), The Conquest of Plassans:",
          "text": "But I want to see the altar-cloth, which must, I think, be getting into a bad condition.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Peter Lovesey, The Reaper:",
          "text": "This century's contribution was mainly in the fabrics sewn and woven by the women of Foxford: the embroidered altar-cloth with a floral design; the dossal, or hanging back-panel for the altar, representing the Annunciation; the lectern fall with crucifix in padded gold kid; the individual kneelers, memorials to past worshippers;...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Camille Flammarion, Thunder and Lightning:",
          "text": "I observed that the words which the lightning had not printed on the cloth, but had omitted, were done in red letters on the card, and were no more favoured nor ill-used than certain other marks without any significance also printed in red upon the card, and leaving no trace upon the altar-cloth.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of altar cloth"
      ],
      "id": "en-altar-cloth-en-noun-~OPV9Uav",
      "links": [
        [
          "altar cloth",
          "altar cloth#English"
        ]
      ],
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        "alt-of",
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "altar-cloth"
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        "plural"
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  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
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  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "word": "altar cloth"
        }
      ],
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1832, Louise d'Argenton (fict. name), Louisa; or, The virtuous villager, page 135:",
          "text": "The tabernacle was covered with dust ; the candlesticks were grown black, not having been cleaned for years ; the altar-cloths were soiled, and almost in rags.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Émile Zola (Translation by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly), The Conquest of Plassans:",
          "text": "But I want to see the altar-cloth, which must, I think, be getting into a bad condition.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Peter Lovesey, The Reaper:",
          "text": "This century's contribution was mainly in the fabrics sewn and woven by the women of Foxford: the embroidered altar-cloth with a floral design; the dossal, or hanging back-panel for the altar, representing the Annunciation; the lectern fall with crucifix in padded gold kid; the individual kneelers, memorials to past worshippers;...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Camille Flammarion, Thunder and Lightning:",
          "text": "I observed that the words which the lightning had not printed on the cloth, but had omitted, were done in red letters on the card, and were no more favoured nor ill-used than certain other marks without any significance also printed in red upon the card, and leaving no trace upon the altar-cloth.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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      ],
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