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名詞

epitaphion (plural epitaphoi or epitaphions)

1. (Eastern Christianity) An embroidered veil showing the dead body of Jesus Christ.
   • 2004, Eleni N. Gage, North of Ithaka‎, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 68:

     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.

Further reading

• epitaphios (liturgical) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia