† silour Obs.
Also 5 silloure (siller), 6 siloure, siler; 5 sylour, cylour, cyllowre; sylure, cylere, 6 syler, Sc. sylar.
[var. of celure: cf. sile v.4]
1. A canopy. Also attrib.
| 1394 Durh. Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 598 In uno Silour empt. pro d'no Priore, cum tinctura de Canevas et Ridell. a 1400–50 Alexander 4915 Þe silloure full of Seraphens & othire sere halows, With curtyns all of clene silke. 1418–c 1450 [see celure]. 1465 Durh. Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 243 Lectus blodius..cum tapeta ejusdem coloris. Item j silour ejusdem coloris. 1523 in Archaeologia (1860) XXXVIII. 364 In the..Knyghton chamber,..syler and tester of whyte..and the conterpoynte of the same. 1548 Will of Colman (Somerset Ho.), One coverlett of siloure worke. |
2. A ceiling. Also attrib.
| 1424–5 Durh. Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 272 Pro emendacione de sylour in aula, cum clavis empt., vj d. 1497 Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 357 To Dauid, wricht,..in part of payment of v lib. for the sylour completing. 1513 Ibid. IV. 524 To James Carvour, ij{supc} sylour naile, xij d. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 56 The sylar alss wes of the sypar tre,..Richt curious carvit with money ane knot. |
So † siloured ppl. a.; † silouring vbl. n.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 77/2 Cyluerde (H. cyluryd, P. cylered), celatus. Ibid. 456/1 Syluryd, celatus. 1450–1 Durh. Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 276 Pro le silorynge ejusdem camere. 1452–3 Ibid. 277 Pro le sylorynge domus rasture. 1494 Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 238 Bocht j{supc} estland burdis for the silouring of the chapell in Striueling. 1558 Wills & Inv. N.C. (1835) I. 184 Y⊇ sillering in the parler. |