altar cloth
a cloth covering for an altar.
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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 JacksonAfter 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 JacksonIn the church is an altar-cloth, now rarely used, worked by two maiden ladies more than two centuries since.
The Cornwall Coast | Arthur L. SalmonThe kneeling piece, which projects from under the folds of the altar-cloth, is of dark wood highly polished.
The Saxons | Edwin Davies SchoonmakerThere are workshops fitted up with lathes, and a small chapel with an altar cloth, covered with skulls and cross-bones.
Recollections of a Long Life | John Stoughton
British Dictionary definitions for altar cloth
Christianity the cloth used for covering an altar: often applied also to the frontal
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