tabernacle

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tabernacle.
1. Portable shrine, originally a curtained tent, containing the Jewish Ark of the Covenant.

2. Cupboard with doors containing the consecrated Host on an altar.

3. Pyx.

4. Any canopied niche containing an image.

5. Shrine or canopied tomb.

6. Baldacchino or ciborium.

7. Place of worship distinguished from a church, e.g. meeting-house, especially one with no architectural pretensions, for Nonconformist Protestants.

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