"sparver" meaning in English

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          "ref": "c. 1525, The oolde ordre of makyng the Kynges bedd; republished as L. C. Brooke, “XX. The Ceremonial of making the King's Bed”, in Archaeologica, volume 4, 1777, →DOI",
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          "text": "[…]a happie woman is ſeene in a white apron as often as in an embrodred kirtle, and hath as quiet ſleeps and as contented wakings in a bed of cloth as under a ſparver of tiſſue.",
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