A WORD A DAY.
CANOPY. A capopy is an overhead covering, an overhanging shelter or shade. While it applied particularly to an ornate covering fixed or carried over a bed, dais, or the like, it is frequently heard in such combinations as “a canopy of clouds,” or “a canopy of branches.” The word has had a rather long philological journey into our tongue. We took it directly from the French canape, whence it may be traced to the Italian canope, then to the Latin canopeum, and then to the Greek (konopecn), indicating an Egyptian bed with mosquito curtains. The Greek word is an extension of (konops), “a gnat, mosquito,” literally “cone-faced,” from (konos), “cone,” (ops), “face, appearance.” The word is accented on the first syllable,-can-o-py; the a sounds as in hat,o as in obey, y as in fancy. “She stood with, only the heavens as a canopy,"
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Southland Times, Issue 21092, 26 May 1930, Page 8
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147A WORD A DAY. Southland Times, Issue 21092, 26 May 1930, Page 8
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