† ˈcelure Obs.
Forms: 4 celure, selure, cylour, 4–5 sylure, 5 celour, -ar, seler, selowyr, silour, sylour, syllure, sillour, siller, 5–6 selour, 6 celler, cellar, seller, ceiler.
[The derivation presents many points of obscurity, some of which are touched on under the related ceil v., while others attach to the history of this particular derivative. Celure presuppposes an OF. or AF. *celeüre, *celure, answering to L. cæ-, cēlātūra; celour, if a genuine form, might answer to an OF. *celeoir, *celoir = L. cēlātōrium; both these L. forms occur in med.L., chiefly in sense ‘canopy’, and both are in ME. Vocabularies glossed by celure; but of the required OF. words no examples have yet been found. The L. words were of course derivatives of cælāre or cēlāre: see ceil.]
A canopy covering a bed, dais, altar, etc., or carried above the Host during a procession. Also the hangings of a bed, the tapestry of a wall, a screen of drapery. rood celure: a canopy over the rood.
| c 1340 Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 76 Guenore..Dressed on þe dere des..a selure hir ouer. 1418 E.E. Wills 36 A bed of Lyn wit a hool silour and Couerlet..also a bed of red and grene dimi Selour. a 1440 Sir Degrev. 1474 Hur bede was off aszure With testur and celure. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 456 Sylure, of valle [v.r. of a walle] or a nother thynge, celatura, celamen. c 1450 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 571 Celatorium, a celour or a coverlet. c 1450 Bk. Curtasye 445 in Babees Bk. (1868) 313 Two beddys..Þat henget shalle be with hole sylour. c 1475 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 776 Hoc supralectum, a selowyr. 1483 Cath. Angl. 340 A Sylour, anabatrum [‘anabatrum, cortina’ (curtain) Gloss. in Du Cange, ed. 1883]. 1494 Will of Sclatter (Somerset Ho.), Two celars of ooke oon of them to be sette ouer the aulter. c 1494 Art. Hen. VII in Househ. Ord. (1790) 126 The font to bee hanged with a riche siller over. 1520 Lanc. Wills I. 38, I bequethe unto the roode seller off Manchester xls. 1525 Ld. Berners Froiss. II. clvii. [cliii.] 434 The lytter had a celler of a thynne fyne clothe of sylke. 1527 Ibid. I. 33 My body to be buryed in the Churche off Croston under the rode celler afore the chancel. 1530 Palsgr. 203/2 Cellar for a bedde, ciel de lit. 1553 Lanc. Wills I. 105 One seller & tester of reede and greene seye w{supt}{suph} curtens of the same. |
¶ ? = ceiling 4, 5.
| c 1394 P. Pl. Crede 201 As a greet chirche..wiþ semlich selure y-set on lofte. c 1400 Mandeville xxii. 239 Of gold & Sylver..he maketh cylours, Pyleres, & Paumentes, in his Palays. |
Hence † ˈcelured ppl. a., canopied; overarched. † ˈceluring, (sillering) = celure 1.
| c 1430 Lydg. Compl. Bl. Knt. viii, Celured eke alofte With bowys grene. 1558 Wills & Inv. N.C. (1835) I. 184 Another pressoure with a portall and y⊇ sillering in the parler. |