The Collaborative International Dictionary
Velarium \Ve*la"ri*um\, n.; pl. Velaria. [L., a covering.] (Zo["o]l.) The marginal membrane of certain medus[ae] belonging to the Discophora.
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Usage examples of "velaria".
In despair, and in a terror which beat down even pride, he glanced his eyes over the rolling and rushing crowd—when, right above them, through the wide chasm which had been left in the velaria, he beheld a strange and awful apparition—he beheld—and his craft restored his courage!
The pile extended the width of the Circus, and was flanked on both sides by towers which, besides helping the architects give grace to their work, served the velaria, or purple awnings, stretched between them so as to throw the whole quarter in a shade that became exceedingly grateful as the day advanced.