A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1892)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · London ; Oxford : J. Parker · leaf 282
, as a tent is pitched. In the Yulgate it is thus employed for the portable temple of the Jews, the “ Tabernacle of the Wilderness.” Hence the word came to signify any small cell or other place in which some holy or precious thing was deposited, and thus was applied to the ornamental receptacle for… … The forms and arrangements of Canopy ^^p^^^^^^^- tabernacles for images have been varied at different times,
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