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Altarpiece
noun · 78% connection
a painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hangings, screen, front, altar, cloth.
Antero-
unknown · 78% connection
A combining form meaning anterior, front; as, antero-posterior, front and back; antero-lateral, front side, anterior and at the side.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hangings, screen, front, altar, cloth.
Arras
noun · 78% connection
Tapestry; a rich figured fabric; especially, a screen or hangings of heavy cloth with interwoven figures.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hangings, screen, front, altar, cloth.
Babylonical
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to Babylon, or made there; as, Babylonic garments, carpets, or hangings.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hangings, screen, front, altar, cloth.
Background
noun · 78% connection
Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had a background of red hangings.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hangings, screen, front, altar, cloth.
Bescreen
verb · 78% connection
To cover with a screen, or as with a screen; to shelter; to conceal.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hangings, screen, front, altar, cloth.
Blind
noun · 78% connection
Something to hinder sight or keep out light; a screen; a cover; esp. a hinged screen or shutter for a window; a blinder for a horse.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hangings, screen, front, altar, cloth.
Ciborium
noun · 78% connection
A canopy usually standing free and supported on four columns, covering the high altar, or, very rarely, a secondary altar.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hangings, screen, front, altar, cloth.
Countermarch
noun · 78% connection
An evolution by which a body of troops change front or reverse the direction of march while retaining the same men in the front rank;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hangings, screen, front, altar, cloth.
Curtain
noun · 78% connection
A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hangings, screen, front, altar, cloth.
Damask
noun · 78% connection
A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; -- made for furniture covering and hangings.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hangings, screen, front, altar, cloth.
Dimity
noun · 78% connection
A cotton fabric employed for hangings and furniture coverings, and formerly used for women's under-garments. It is of many patterns, b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hangings, screen, front, altar, cloth.
Dornock
noun · 78% connection
A coarse sort of damask, originally made at Tournay (in Flemish, Doornick), Belgium, and used for hangings, carpets, etc. Also, a stou…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hangings, screen, front, altar, cloth.
Drape
verb · 78% connection
To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hangings, screen, front, altar, cloth.
Drapery
noun · 78% connection
A textile fabric used for decorative purposes, especially when hung loosely and in folds carefully disturbed; as: (a) Garments or vest…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hangings, screen, front, altar, cloth.
Fondus
noun · 78% connection
A style of printing calico, paper hangings, etc., in which the colors are in bands and graduated into each other.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hangings, screen, front, altar, cloth.
Front
verb · 78% connection
To adorn in front; to supply a front to; as, to front a house with marble; to front a head with laurel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hangings, screen, front, altar, cloth.
Frontal
noun · 78% connection
The frontal bone, or one of the two frontal bones, of the cranium.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hangings, screen, front, altar, cloth.
