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coved adjective[ before noun ] uk /kəʊvd/ us /koʊvd/ A coved ceiling has a long, curved piece of wood, plaster(= a smooth building material that becomes hard when it dries), etc. placed as a decoration along the edge where the wall and ceiling join: coved ceilingThey love the house's coved ceilings, maple floors, and marble mantelpieces. At the end is a gallery for musicians, decorated on its coved front with a coat of arms. Related words
cove coving The architect asked one of his painter friends to decorate the deeply coved ceiling of the upper hall. Unless you have a particularly pretty beamed or coved ceiling it is often a good idea to lower the ceiling area in a kitchen. The library has ornate floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, a carved fireplace and coved cornices. At one end of the room was a coved and elaborately carved dado. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Parts of buildings: walls & parts of walls alcove balcony baseboard cavity wall chimney breast damp course damp-proof damp-proofing drystone wall Juliet balcony party wall pebbledash plasterboard recess sconce siding wainscoting wallboard walled woodwork |