canopy
noun
[ ˈkanəpi ]
• an ornamental cloth covering hung or held up over something, especially a throne or bed.
• "a romantic four-poster bed complete with drapes and a canopy"
Similar:
awning,
shade,
sunshade,
cover,
covering,
baldachin,
tester,
half-tester,
chuppah,
velarium,
• the uppermost branches of the trees in a forest, forming a more or less continuous layer of foliage.
• "woolly monkeys spend hours every day sitting high in the canopy"
canopy
verb
• cover or provide with a canopy.
• "the river was canopied by overhanging trees"
Origin:
late Middle English: from medieval Latin canopeum ‘ceremonial canopy’, alteration of Latin conopeum ‘mosquito net over a bed’, from Greek kōnōpeion ‘couch with mosquito curtains’, from kōnōps ‘mosquito’.
