sparver

[ spahr-ver ]

noun

1. a tentlike bed curtain or canopy.
2. a bed curtain suspended from a flat, circular covering on the ceiling.
3. a bed having a tentlike curtain or canopy.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sparver¹

1400–50; late Middle English sperver < Middle French esprevier sparrow hawk, canopy bed < Germanic

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