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tentory

tentory noun: the awning or covering of a tent.

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

Forms of tentory

pluraltentories

Origin of tentory

Latin tentorium (“a tent”).

Questions about tentory

What does tentory mean?
Tentory means the awning or covering of a tent.
What part of speech is tentory?
Tentory is a noun.
What is the plural of tentory?
The plural of tentory is tentories.

Words near tentory in the dictionary

  1. tentories
  2. tentorii
  3. tentorium
  4. tentorium cerebelli
  5. tentoriums
  6. tentory
  7. tentoxin
  8. tentoxins
  9. tentpole
  10. tentpole film
  11. tentpole films

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