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Webster 1828 Edition

Coving

COVING

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Noun.
[See Cove.] In building, a term denoting an arch or arched projecture, as when houses are built so as to project over the ground-plot, ad the turned projecture arched with timber, lathed and plastered.

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coving

coving

See also: co-ving

English

Noun

coving ‎(plural covings)

  1. 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.

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Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -əʊvɪŋ

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