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sparver
[ spahr-ver ]
noun
- a tentlike bed curtain or canopy.
- a bed curtain suspended from a flat, circular covering on the ceiling.
- a bed having a tentlike curtain or canopy.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sparver1
1400–50; late Middle English sperver < Middle French esprevier sparrow hawk, canopy bed < Germanic
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Example Sentences
Item a bedde with a sparver and counterpoint of cloth of golde, the curteyns of double sarcenet.
From Project Gutenberg
And so then every of them sticke up the aungel about the bedde, and to lette down the corteyns of the sayd bedde, or sparver.
From Project Gutenberg
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