celure

Noun

1. A canopy, especially one over a bed or altar.
   • 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:
   • Cellar for a bedde, ciel de lit. - 1530, John Palsgrave, Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse:
   • [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...