jan 1, 1695 - tester

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A canopy over a bed, either suspended from the ceiling or supported on the posts. 1377 <i>unum lectum integrum cum testers, howcez, tapetis,</i> Bewick (SS4/101); 1470 <i>a white hangyng for a bedde, that is to saye a celour and testour with curteyns</i>, Doncaster (SS116/55); 1490 <i>De j lez teister cum imagine B. M. vjd</i>, York (SS53/57); 1542 <i>a ... teister of white and tawney saten embrothered</i>, Bretton Hall (YRS134/2); 1695 <i>the roofe ... redy to fall downe upon them when it raines they are forsed to get any thing they have upon the bed teasters to keep the water forth of the beed</i>, Wetherby (QS1/35/1).

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