hālig-rift

hālig-rift, f.n: a holy garment, veil. (HA-lih-RIFT / ˈhaː-lɪj-ˌrɪft)

Medieval illustration of a large veil that holds two bearded haloed young men, who reach their arms up to touch the wings of the haloed dove that holds the veil aloft in its beak.
The veil forms a hammock in which the Trinity rests, partially covered, in the Rothschild Canticles; Flanders or the Rhineland, c. 1300; Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Beinecke MS 404, f. 75r. [collections.library.yale.edu]

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