tentory

English

Etymology

Latin tentorium (“a tent”).

Noun

tentory (plural tentories)

1. (obsolete) The awning or covering of a tent.
   • 1729, John Evelyn, Silva: or, a discource of Forest-Trees, And the Propagation of Timber in His Majesty's Dominions:

     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 Places were not obscure enough to conceal.