Citations:laqueary

English citations of laqueary

ceiling, roof of a chamber? particular brocade-like design on a ceiling?

• 1895, Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain), Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, page 118:

  Mr. Lang writes to us: - "January 28th, 1895. To-day, at the Castle, in the room where James VI. was born, June 19th, 1566, I observed, in the square laquearies of the (1617) roof, the same device, with a thistle flower at each corner, […]

• 2019 October 14, Paul Anthony Jones, The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities: A Yearbook of Forgotten Words, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 306:

  laqueary (n.) a ceiling, the roof of a room. […] The moulded or carved designs used on ornate laqueary ceilings would often take the form of twisted ropes or cords - like a wooden string of brocade - and so perhaps the name laqueary alludes to the resemblance between these traditional rope-like designs and the literal Latin hangman's noose.

net- or noose-fighting

• 1912 [????], Thomas Browne, The Religio Medici & Other Writings of Sir Thomas Browne, page 244:

  […] like Retiary and Laqueary Combatants, with Nets, Frauds, and Entanglements fall upon us. Weapons for such combats are not to be forged  […]