What is "coffered"

Usage examples of "coffered".

The beautiful coffered ceiling of noble woods, repeated throughout the convent, had been built by a Spanish artisan who devoted half his life to the work in exchange for the right to be buried in a vaulted niche of the high altar.

The bass notes of the organ rumbled in the coffered ceiling and left almost no openings for the bland voices of the Clarissans, invisible behind the lattices of the chancel.

They lay down side by side on the bed and shared their rancor, while the world grew quiet until the only sound was the gnawing of termites in the coffered ceiling.

Once the ink was dry upon the parchment, I set out to purchase for myself the finest furnishings imaginable - coffered beds, desks, chairs, tables, all the usual appointments including gold threaded draperies for every window - and I set to the task of managing all this a clever and genial old man named Vincenzo, a creature of extremely solid health, whom I had bought almost as if he were a slave from a family who had no more use for him and kept him about in shameful neglect because he had once educated their sons.

She delighted in our fancy coffered beds, and all the colored draperies.

A soldiernot Wainerwaved from the opening where the ramp merged with the coffered ceiling.

Blue-Hair pointed to the coffered wooden door at the other end of the room.

A soldier—not Wainer—waved from the opening where the ramp merged with the coffered ceiling.

Inside the temple office-a spacious study with an elaborate coffered ceiling, and built-in cabinets and shelves containing books and scrolls-Sano examined the mystery woman's kimonos.

Elaborate coffered and gilt ceilings decorated the long corridor they followed past rooms crammed with lacquer chests and cabinets, painted scrolls, embroidered silk cushions, life-size statues, tables and shelves crowded with ceramic vases and ivory and gold carvings.

When the world settled again, he recognized his own bed-chamber, with its coffered ceiling, painted screen, lacquer chests and cabinets, and burning charcoal braziers.

Nadisu clutched the patriarch's hand and pulled himself upright, then turned his gaze toward the coffered ceiling.

The room was as majestic as the rest of the temple, with a ceiling of coffered oak and alabaster walls decorated with bas-reliefs of Mystra's miracles.

Beauty of course knew that the bed had high posts which held a coffered ceiling over it.

She stared at the coffered ceiling of the bed above her and realized that the Queen was opening her sex as Leon had done.