coffered
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɒfəd/
- Rhymes: -ɒfəd
Adjective
coffered
- (architecture) Having coffers.
- coffered ceiling
- 1922 October, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “Part II. A Game of Chess.”, in The Waste Land, 1st book edition, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, published December 1922, →OCLC, page 18:
- […] stirred by the air / That freshened from the window, these ascended / In fattening the prolonged candle-flames, / Flung their smoke into the laquearia, / Stirring the pattern on the coffered ceiling.
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