| 单词 | lent cloth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasLent cloth Lent cloth n. now chiefly historical a cloth, typically purple in colour, hung in front of or over a religious image or object in Lent; cf. Lenten cloth n. at Lenten n. and adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > cloths, carpets, cushions > cloth (general) > curtain or hanging cloth > [noun] > as a covering > to cover images during Lent Lent cloth1429 Lenten cloth1429 1429 in H. E. Salter Churchwardens' Accts. St. Michael's Oxf. (1933) 21 For a Lent cloth i-called the veylle iis. iiiid. 1552 in W. Page Inventories Church Goods York, Durham & Northumberland (1897) 44 One great clothe of canves cauled Lente clothe. 1806 Gentleman's Mag. June 526 The materials and colour of the Lent Cloths seem to have been objects of no very great concern. 1901 Archaeol. Jrnl. 2nd Ser. 8 154 The Lent cloth for the crucifix was painted with the Passion. 2001 E. Duffy Voices Morebath (2003) vi. 122 Sometime before the end of September 1548 she sold off the Lent cloth. < as lemmas |
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