Meaning of sparver | Babel Free

Definitions

A canopy for a bed.

obsolete

Examples

“And ſo then every of them ſticke up the aungell about the bedde and to lette downe the corteyns of the ſayd bedde or ſparuer.”

“And I geue vnto the ſame Elizabeth my wif the ſparuers and hangings of the ſame twoo beddes vſuallye occupied, and hanging ouer and about the ſame twoo beddes[…]”

“[…]a happie woman is ſeene in a white apron as often as in an embrodred kirtle, and hath as quiet ſleeps and as contented wakings in a bed of cloth as under a ſparver of tiſſue.”

CEFR level