English

tenterloft

From tenter + loft.

A compound of tenter + loft

Latin tentorium ‘tent’

Proto-West Germanic *lufti

Old English lyft ‘air’

Middle English lofte ‘air, sky, upper region, loft’

English loft

Today it means

noun A loft used to dry cloth on a tenter.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / tenterloft