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

The inventory of the goods belonging to the priory of Minster in Sheppey, at the Dissolution, contains, under the heading of “the greate Chamber in the Dorter,” a note of stuff in the same chamber belonging to Dame Agnes Davye, which she browghte with her; a square sparver of payntyd clothe and iiij peces hangyng of the same, iij payre of shets, a cownterpoynt of corse verder and i square cofer of ashe, a cabord of waynscott carved, ij awndyrons, a payre of tonges and a fyer panne.

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