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celure
† 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 a...
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cillery
cilery, cillery Arch. (ˈsɪlərɪ) [app. formed from celure, also spelt cylour, siller, etc.] ‘The drapery or foliage carved on the heads of columns.’1611 Cotgr., Draperie, a flourishing with leaues, and flowers in wood, or stone, vsed especially on the heads of pillers, and tearmed by our workemen Dra...
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cylour
cyllowre, cylour, -ure var. of celure Obs., ceiling, canopy. So cylured a., ceiled, canopied.c 1440 Promp. Parv. 77 Cyllowre (P. cylere), celatura. Ibid., Cylured (v. rr. -uryd, -ered), celatus.
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silour
† 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 Alex...
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sellore
sellore variant of celure Obs.c 1474 Paston Lett. III. 406 Item, a sellore, xij d.
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ceil
▪ I. ceil, n. poet. rare. (siːl) [f. next.] = ceiling. (Cf. the earlier cyll.)1840 Galt Demon Dest. vii. 48 The awning clouds were as a cavern's ceil. 1861 Bentley Ballads 47 As the figures we see in an arabesque..In Gothic vaulted ceils.▪ II. ceil, ciel, v. (siːl) Forms: 5 ceel-yn, selyn, 6 seele, ...
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selare
▪ I. selar variant of celure Obs., canopy.1470–85 Malory Arthur xvii. vi. 698 The selar of the bedde.▪ II. selar(e obs. forms of cellar.c 1425 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 670/14 Hoc selarium, selare.
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