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Apse vs Baldachin - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between apse and baldachin

is that apse is (architecture) a semicircular projection from a building, especially the rounded east end of a church that contains the altar while baldachin is .

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English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (architecture) A semicircular projection from a building, especially the rounded east end of a church that contains the altar.
  • The bishop's seat or throne in ancient churches.
  • A reliquary, or case in which the relics of saints were kept.
  • (astronomy, obsolete) The nearest and furthest points to the centre of gravitational attraction for a body in orbit. More usually called an apsis.
  • (obsolete, or, dialectal) An aspen tree.

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    baldachin

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1903, author=John Leslie Garner, title=Lucretia Borgia, by=Ferdinand Gregorovius, edition= citation
    • , passage=She rode beneath a purple baldachin , which the doctors of Ferrara--that is, the members of the faculties of law, medicine, and mathematics--supported in turn. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1908, author=Major W. E Frye, title=After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The bronze that formerly ornamented this temple was made use of to fabricate the baldachin of St Peter's. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1928, author=J. K. Huysmans, title=La-bas, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=People will spend thirty thousand francs on an altar baldachin , and ruin themselves for music, and they have to have gas in their churches, and Lord knows what all besides, but when you mention bells they shrug their shoulders. }} ----