sparver
[ spahr-ver ]
/ ˈspɑr vər /
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.
Origin of sparver
1400–50; late Middle English
sperver < Middle French
esprevier sparrow hawk, canopy bed < Germanic
Words nearby sparver
spartan,
spartanburg,
sparteine,
sparti,
spartiate,
sparver,
spasm,
spasm band,
spasmo-,
spasmodic,
spasmodic dysmenorrhea
Example sentences from the Web for sparver
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 KingItem a bedde with a sparver and counterpoint of cloth of golde, the curteyns of double sarcenet.
Mary Tudor, Queen of France |Mary Croom Brown