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silour

silour is the obsolete form of celure.

Meaning of celure

Noun

celure (plural celures)

  1. (archaic, historical) 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 […].c. 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur

Forms of silour

pluralsilours

Questions about silour

What is silour the obsolete form of?
Silour is the obsolete form of celure.

Words near silour in the dictionary

  1. Silongan
  2. Silop
  3. silorane
  4. siloranes
  5. silos
  6. silour
  7. silours
  8. silovarch
  9. silovarchies
  10. silovarchs
  11. silovarchy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: silour (page history and authors); celure (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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