[L. f. laque-us noose, band: see LACE sb.]
a. Arch. (See quots.)
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Laquear (in Archit.), a Roof, the inward Roof of a House; the Roof of a Chamber embowed, channelled, and done with Fret-work.
1859. Gwilt, Archit. (ed. 4), Gloss., s.v. Lacunar, The ceiling of any part in architecture receives the name of lacunar only when it consists of compartments sunk or hollowed, without spaces or bands, between the panels; if it is with bands, it is called laquear.
b. Anat. (See quot. 1888.)
1888. Syd. Soc. Lex., Laquear, the roof of a part.
1889. J. M. Duncan, Lect. Dis. Women, xxii. (ed. 4), 172. Where the disease attacks only parts of the passage, as the laquear.
