/veuh lair"ee euhm/ , n. , pl. velaria /-lair"ee euh/ . Rom. Antiq.
an awning drawn over a theater or amphitheater as a protection from rain or the sun.
[ 1825-35; velarium (a word known only from a passage in Juvenal; the intended sense may be "curtain" rather than "awning"); see VELUM, -ARY ]