celure

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Etymology

Uncertain; apparently related to Medieval Latin celatorium, caelatura, via unattested Old French forms.

Noun

celure (plural celures)

  1. (now rare, historical) A canopy, especially one over a bed or altar.
    • c. 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur:
      And whan these thre spyndels were shapen / she made hem to be fastned vpon the selar of the bedde .
    • 1530, John Palsgrave, Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse:
      Cellar for a bedde, ciel de lit.
    • 1982, Gene Wolfe, chapter V, in The Sword of the Lictor (The Book of the New Sun; 3), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 38:
      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.
    • 2001, Judith Middleton-Stewart, Inward Purity and Outward Splendour, page 231:
      Above the rood-screen, the painted celure of twenty painted panels carries symbols of the Passion .
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