CANOPY (through Fr. canape, from Med.

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• LAT

Lat. canapeum, classical conopeum, a

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• MOSQUITO (Span. mosquito, a gnat, diminutive of mosca, a fly)

mosquito

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• CURTAIN

curtain, Gr. K6v(.4, a

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• GNAT (0. Eng. gnat)

gnat)  , the upper part or cover of a niche, or the projecting ornament over an altar or seat or tomb . Early English canopies are generally simple, with trefoiled or cinquefoiled heads; but in the later styles they are very rich, and divided into compartments with pendants, knots, pinnacles, &c . The triangular arrangement over an Early English and Decorated doorway is often called a canopy . The triangular canopies in the north of Italy are peculiar . Those in England are generally part of the arrangement of the arch mouldings of the door, and form, as it were, the hood-. moulds to them, as at York . The former are above and in-dependent of the door mouldings, and frequently support an arch with a tympanum, above which is a triangular canopy, as in the Duomo at Florence . Sometimes the canopy and arch project from the wall, and are carried on small jamb shafts, as at San Pietro XI attire, at Verona . There is an extremely curious canopy, being a sort of horseshoe arch, surmounting and breaking into a circular arch, at Tournai . Similar canopies are often over windows, as at York, over the great west window, and lower tiers in the towers . These are triangular, while the upper windows in the towers have ogee canopies .