altarcloth

English

Noun

altarcloth (plural altarcloths)

1. Alternative form of altar cloth
   • 1983, Angela M. Lucas, Women in the Middle Ages, page 41:

     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.

   • 1994, Göran Schildt, Alvar Aalto, page 262:

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

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

     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."

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

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