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ciborium
[ si-bawr-ee-uhm, -bohr- ]
noun
- a permanent canopy placed over an altar; baldachin.
- any container designed to hold the consecrated bread or sacred wafers for the Eucharist.
- Archaic. a severy.
ciborium
/ sɪˈbɔːrɪəm /
noun
- a goblet-shaped lidded vessel used to hold consecrated wafers in Holy Communion
- a freestanding canopy fixed over an altar and supported by four pillars
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Origin of ciborium1
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Example Sentences
Nor can we forget the foamy ciborium of the Church of St Lawrence.
The cover, fallen to one side, had a number of bullet marks, as the ciborium itself had.
Upon the altar are two candlesticks and a ciborium: rising out of the latter is the figure of our Blessed Lord.
At the centre of the chord stood the high altar beneath a ciborium, resting on four pillars of porphyry.
The altar stands beneath a lofty ciborium, supported by marble columns, with a canopy on smaller shafts above.
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