/si bawr"ee euhm, -bohr"-/ , n. , pl. ciboria /-bawr"ee euh, -bohr"-/ .
1. a permanent canopy placed over an altar; baldachin.
2. any container designed to hold the consecrated bread or sacred wafers for the Eucharist.
3. Archaic. a severy.
[ 1645-55; kibórion lit., the seed vessel of the Egyptian lotus, which the cup appar. resembled ]