"altarcloth" meaning in English

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Noun

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

Inflected forms

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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1994, Göran Schildt, Alvar Aalto, page 262",
          "text": "The altarcloth is bordered by a frieze depicting a running hound embroidered on a crimson ground.",
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          "ref": "1997, Samuel Kline Cohn, The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death",
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          "ref": "2006, Susan Boynton, Shaping a Monastic Identity, page 29",
          "text": "Pawning the altarcloth powerfully symbolized this renunciation of the abbey's liberty.",
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