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ciborium

/si-bawr-ee-uhm, -bohr-/US // sɪˈbɔr i əm, -ˈboʊr- //UK // (sɪˈbɔːrɪəm) //

纪念品,纪念碑,纪念册,纪念币

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ci·bo·ri·a [si-bawr-ee-uh, -bohr-]. /sɪˈbɔr i ə, -ˈboʊr-/.

    • : 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.

Examples

  • 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.