| 单词 | lenten cloth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasLenten cloth Lenten cloth n. now chiefly historical a cloth, typically purple in colour, hung in front of or over a religious image or object in Lent. [Compare Lent cloth n. at Lent n.1 Compounds 2.] 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 Will in Trans. Essex Archæol. Soc. (1895) 5 303 (MED) ij auter clothes in maner of lenton clothes. 1546–7 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 274 vij yardes of Oscon brigges for to make Seynt Thomas a lenton' clothe at iiijd the yarde. 1894 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 22 Aug. 5/1 A new magenta, bright and beautiful, is to be known as ‘Pivoine;’ deep purple, like lenten cloths, is ‘Prelat’. 2000 Zeitschr. f. Kunstgeschichte 63 176/1 There was another very popular medium in which these narratives were depicted with a comparable breadth of vision, namely Lenten cloths. < as lemmas |
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