coffered

Definitions

Examples

• Then, in the dining-room, those same eyes rested on the coffered ceiling and the portraits and the wide mullioned lattice.

• She was glad to be alone, and it was very comfortable to rest on the soft cushions under the gilt-coffered ceiling of the arcade.

• The interior is a magnificent rotunda lighted by a circular aperture in the centre of the coffered dome.

• The ceilings of the aisles are coffered and sustain heavy gold bosses, which enrich the gorgeous effect of their strong colour.

• The chief defect of the coffered Renaissance ceiling is the lack of this predominating part.