silour

English

Etymology

Variant of celure.

Noun

silour (plural silours)

  1. (obsolete) A canopy. [14th-16thc.]
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter vj, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII:
      Anone as he beganne to werke / ther cam out droppes of blood / and thenne wold he haue lefte / but she wold not suffre hym // and soo he tooke aweye as moche wood as myȝte make a spyndyl / and soo she made hym to take as moche of the grene tree and of the whyte tree / And whan these thre spyndels were shapen / she made hem to be fastned vpon the selar of the bedde

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