Baldachin vs Tester - What's the difference?
baldachin | tester |
* {{quote-book, year=1903, author=John Leslie Garner, title=Lucretia Borgia, by=Ferdinand Gregorovius, edition=
, 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=
, 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=
, 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. }}
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A canopy over a bed.
*1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , III.13:
*:And I could as hardly spare my gloves as my shirt, or forbeare washing of my hands both in the mornng and rising from the table, or lye in a bed without a testerne and curtaines about it, as of most necessary things.
* Walpole
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 Something that overhangs something else; especially a canopy or soundboard over a pulpit.
*1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby Dick) , :
A person who administers a test.
A device used for testing.
(Australia, slang, obsolete) A punishment of 25 lashes (strokes of a whip) across a person?s back.1987 , , 1996, paperback, ISBN 1-86046-150-6, Chapter 12.
A sample of perfume available in a shop for customers to try before they buy.
As nouns the difference between baldachin and tester
is that baldachin is while tester is a canopy over a bed or tester can be a person who administers a test or tester can be an old french silver coin.baldachin
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Etymology 1
Probably from (etyl) testre, from (etyl) testa.Noun
(en noun)- No testers to the bed, and the saddles and portmanteaus heaped on me to keep off the cold.
citation, passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane half tester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.}}
- With our shaggy jackets drawn about our shoulders, we now passed the Tomahawk from one to the other, till slowly there grew over us a blue hanging tester of smoke, illuminated by the flame of the new-lit lamp.