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† ˈtecture Obs.
[ad. L. tectūra a covering.]
A covering (lit. or fig.); a canopy, a roof.
1624F. White Repl. Fisher 579 Your..Blandishments are but Maskes and Tectures of latent perfidiousnesse. 1632Lithgow Trav. x. 443 This palatiat cloyster is quadrangled foure stories high, the vppermost whereof, is window-set in the blew tecture. 1651Raleigh's Ghost Pref., He may seem to shadow..his blasphemy under the tecture of some weak and feeble reasons. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 471* Caves were their houses, the tectures of wood their cottages.
Hence † ˈtectured a., canopied, roofed; formed with or as a roof.
1632Lithgow Trav. viii. 366 The streetes being couered aboue,..haue large Lights cut through the tectur'd tops. |