Obs. [ad. L. tentōri-um tent: see -ORY1.] A tent; the awning of a tent.
1412–20. Lydg., Chron. Troy, II. 7109. Wher þe kyng sat in his tentorie. Ibid., IV. 2515. For lak of socour Þe Grekis wern eche in his tentorie Of Troylus slayn.
1664. Evelyn, Sylva, IV. viii. (1775), 615. The women … who are said [2 Kings xxiii. 7] to weave hangings and curtains for the grove, were no other then makers of tentories, to spread from tree to tree.
