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