coving
Noun
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Noun
coving (plural covings)
- A concave surface forming a junction between a ceiling and a wall.
- 2005, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty (Bloomsbury Publishing, paperback edition, p.429)
- The gilt lantern burned palely in the stairwell, but in the dining room the ordinary shadows deepened in the corners and hung like smoke in the coving of the ceiling.
- 2005, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty (Bloomsbury Publishing, paperback edition, p.429)
- The vertical sides connecting the jambs with the breast of a fireplace.
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