tentory

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noun

The awning or covering of a tent.

OriginLatin tentorium →
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Meanings

nountentory (plural tentories)

plural tentories

  1. obsoleteThe awning or covering of a tent.
    1 more example

    And the Women mentioned who are said to weave Hangings and Curtains for the Grove, were no other than Makers of Tentories, to spread from Tree to Tree, for the more opportune and secret perpetration of those impure Rites and Mysteries, which (without these Coverings) even the opacousness of the Places were not obscure enough to conceal.

    1729, John Evelyn, Silva: or, a discource of Forest-Trees, And the Propagation of Timber in His Majesty's Dominions

Origin

  1. Latintentorium“a tent”
  2. Englishtentory

Latin tentorium (“a tent”).

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APA

tentory. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tentory

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“tentory.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tentory. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tentory,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tentory.

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