coffered

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɒfəd/
  • Rhymes: -ɒfəd

Adjective

coffered

  1. (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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Verb

coffered

  1. simple past and past participle of coffer

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