epitaphion

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An embroidered veil showing the dead body of Jesus Christ.
    — Visitors kept dropping by, following the custom of seeing as many epitaphoi as possible; the more you visit, the better your luck for the coming year. I crawled under the epitaphion, too, and Spiridoula tipped me off that people take flowers from the epitaphion home with them after the evening service to save as filakta — protective amulets.

词形变化

epitaphoi plural epitaphions plural

词源

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπῐτᾰ́φῐον (epĭtắphĭon).
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