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n. (context architecture English) A vaulted ceiling, in a home or elsewhere, which slopes upward from the walls, following the slope of the underside of the roof.
Usage examples of "cathedral ceiling".
Waves of electric blue energy ripple upward every few seconds along the walls and cathedral ceiling, disappearing up through the chimneylike orifice overhead.
He might be drifting high above the polished-oak pews, as if in a swimming pool filled with clouds of spicy incense and humble prayer instead of water, silently bumping into the columns and the corners of the cathedral ceiling as He dreamily meditates, waiting for parishioners in need to come to Him with problems to be solved.
The sofa blocked his view of the room toward the fireplace, but he could see the stone chimney rising to the high cathedral ceiling, and noticed the gray wolf head looking across the room from thirty feet away.
The living/dining room had a cathedral ceiling that peaked sixteen feet over the carpeted floor with an enormous wood beam.
The living room itself was all new, wide, spacious, with a high slanted cathedral ceiling.
The interior was a huge, undivided long room with a cathedral ceiling.
A huge rock fireplace dominated the left wall, the chimney soaring upward to the cathedral ceiling.
The cathedral ceiling hung far away above him in dismal shadows, beamed and sloping, smelling faintly of mildew and sandalwood and tallow.