celure

plural celures · alternative cellar · alternative selar · alternative silour

1. archaichistoricalA canopy, especially one over a bed or altar.

   Cellar for a bedde, ciel de lit.

   1530, John Palsgrave, Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse

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   And whan these thre spyndels were shapen / she made hem to be fastned vpon the selar of the bedde […].

   c. 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur

   [A]t dawn, if the archon is still enjoying himself, they'll let down the curtains to exclude the light, and perhaps even raise the celure over the garden.

   1982, Gene Wolfe, chapter V, in The Sword of the Lictor (The Book of the New Sun; 3), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 38

   Above the rood-screen, the painted celure of twenty painted panels carries symbols of the Passion […].

   2001, Judith Middleton-Stewart, Inward Purity and Outward Splendour, page 231