sparver

[ spahr-ver ]

noun
  1. a tentlike bed curtain or canopy.

  2. a bed curtain suspended from a flat, circular covering on the ceiling.

  1. a bed having a tentlike curtain or canopy.

Origin of sparver

1
1400–50; late Middle English sperver<Middle French esprevier sparrow hawk, canopy bed <Germanic

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How to use sparver in a sentence

  • Item a bedde with a sparver and counterpoint of cloth of golde, the curteyns of double sarcenet.

    Mary Tudor, Queen of France | Mary Croom Brown
  • 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.

    Ten Thousand Wonderful Things | Edmund Fillingham King