altar cloth


noun
  1. a cloth covering for an altar.

Origin of altar cloth

1
Middle English word dating back to 1150–1200

Words Nearby altar cloth

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How to use altar cloth in a sentence

  • Ramona had covered the box with white cloth, and the lace altar-cloth thrown over it fell in folds to the floor.

    Ramona | Helen Hunt Jackson
  • After a few seconds Ramona rose, went into the house, brought out the white altar-cloth, and laid it over the mutilated face.

    Ramona | Helen Hunt Jackson
  • In the church is an altar-cloth, now rarely used, worked by two maiden ladies more than two centuries since.

    The Cornwall Coast | Arthur L. Salmon
  • The kneeling piece, which projects from under the folds of the altar-cloth, is of dark wood highly polished.

    The Saxons | Edwin Davies Schoonmaker
  • There are workshops fitted up with lathes, and a small chapel with an altar cloth, covered with skulls and cross-bones.

British Dictionary definitions for altar cloth

altar cloth

noun
  1. Christianity the cloth used for covering an altar: often applied also to the frontal

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