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Brewer's: Baldachin

The daïs or canopy under which, in Roman Catholic processions, the Holy Sacrament is carried (Italian, baldacchino, so-called from Baldacco (Italian for Bagdad), where the cloth was made…

Brewer's: Act of Faith

(auto da fé) in Spain, is a day set apart by the Inquisition for the punishment of heretics, and the absolution of those who renounce their heretical doctrines. The sentence of the…

Brewer's: Daysman

An umpire, judge, or intercessor. The word is dais-man (a man who sits on the daïs); a sort of lit de justice. Hence Piers Ploughman— And at the day of doom At the height Deys sit. Source…

Brewer's: Decollete

[da-coal-ta ]. Nothing even décolleté should be uttered before ladies—i.e. bearing the least semblance to a double entendre. Décolleté is the French for a “dress cut low about the bosom…