Definitions
a flat canopy (especially one over a four-poster bed)
Word origin
From Middle English tester, from Old French testre, from Latin testura.
Used in a sentence
“And I could as hardly spare my gloves as my shirt, or forbeare washing of my hands both in the mornng and rising from the table, or lye in a bed without a testerne and curtaines about it, as of most necessary things.”
“With our shaggy jackets drawn about our shoulders, we now passed the Tomahawk from one to the other, till slowly there grew over us a blue hanging tester of smoke, illuminated by the flame of the new-lit lamp.”
“A horse-head tester had cutouts for the animal's eyes and ears. A peytral protected the horse's breast, while the crinet, made of overlapping steel plates joined by leather straps or rivets, protected its neck.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Examiner”6 letters
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