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tentories

tentories is the plural of tentory.

Meaning of tentory

Noun

tentory (plural tentories)

  1. (obsolete) The awning or covering of a tent.
    • And the Women mentioned who are said to weave Hangings and Curtains for the Grove, were no other than Makers of Tentories, to spread from Tree to Tree, for the more opportune and secret perpetration of those impure Rites and Mysteries, which (without these Coverings) even the opacousness of the...1729, John Evelyn, Silva: or, a discource of Forest-Trees, And the Propagation of Timber in His Majesty's Dominions

Questions about tentories

What is tentories the plural of?
Tentories is the plural of tentory.

Words near tentories in the dictionary

  1. tentoria
  2. tentoria cerebellorum
  3. tentorial
  4. tentorial notch
  5. tentorial notches
  6. tentories
  7. tentorii
  8. tentorium
  9. tentorium cerebelli
  10. tentoriums
  11. tentory

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