celure means A canopy, especially one over a bed or altar. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 77 out of 100.
Why this word is great
CELURE — [Noun] A canopy, especially one of fabric suspended over a bed or altar. Its uncertain etymology may trace to Medieval Latin celatorium or caelatura ("embossed or carved work"), via unattested Old French forms, suggesting ornamentation as much as shelter. Unlike "baldachin" (a rigid, permanent structure) or "tester" (a bed canopy bound by posts), celure is the ephemeral poetry of draped cloth—the way linen billows above a sickbed, catching candlelight like a sail; how brocade sags with the weight of incense smoke over an altar; or how a child’s makeshift fort of bedsheets becomes, for an afternoon, a cathedral. It is the human insistence on carving sacred space from air and thread.
noun
- A canopy, especially one over a bed or altar.“And whan these thre spyndels were shapen / she made hem to be fastned vpon the selar of the bedde […].”