Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Canopy

Canopy (kan"o*py) , noun

[Old English canapie, French canapé sofa, Old French conopée, conopeu, conopieu, canopy, vail, pavilion (compare Italian canopè canopy, sofa), Late Latin conopeum a bed with mosquito curtains, from Greek kwnwpei^on, from kw`nwps gnat, kw`nos cone + 'w`ps face. See Cone, and Optic.]

1.
A covering fixed over a bed, dais, or the like, or carried on poles over an exalted personage or a sacred object, etc. chiefly as a mark of honor.
Golden canopies and beds of state. — Dryden
2.
(a) (Architecture) An ornamental projection, over a door, window, niche, etc.
(b)
(Architecture) Also, a rooflike covering, supported on pillars over an altar, a statue, a fountain, etc.

Canopy , transitive verb

To cover with, or as with, a canopy.
A bank with ivy canopied. — Milton