An assemblage or arrangement of ribs, as the timberwork for the support of an arch or coved ceiling, the veins in the leaves of some plants, ridges in the fabric of cloth, or the like.
The framework in arched or coved ceilings to which the laths are nailed.
The best exterior feature of the building is the beautifully hand-tooled cornice with itscoved member having a series of recessed arches and the well-known Grecian band or double denticulated molding beneath.
The roof, which is flat at top, and coved or vaulted at the sides, is painted in compartments by Michael Angelo, with frescos representing the whole progress of the world and of mankind from its first formation by the Almighty .
In thecoved ceiling, however, there are still some bright frescos, in better preservation than any others; not particularly beautiful, nevertheless.
In the storey above, which slightly projects from a coved cornice, is another window of similar character but of larger dimensions: an overhanging gable with barge boards and carved pendants crowning the whole.
At the end is a gallery or balcony for the musicians, which on its coved front has a florid coat of arms of foreign heraldry.
The shape of the ceiling is slightly domed, the four coved sides terminating above in a flat centre, painted with a gigantic star of the Order of the Garter.
The coved ceiling, rising from behind the oak cornice, adds greatly to the apparent height of the room.
The coved sides themselves are painted with octagonal panels, diminishing upwards to simulate a lofty pierced dome.
In the coved compartments of the roof, above the windows, ran a row of dancing boys; and these are still most beautifully modelled, though the pallor of recent whitewash is upon them.
It has a coved roof, with a large flat oblong space in the centre of the ceiling.
Into this open a number ofcoved rooms, adorned with paintings of figures and arabesques.
A coved and panelled ceiling of decorated aethereum sprang from the upper edge of the richly moulded cornice; and a skylight of magnificent stained glass, somewhat similar to that of the dining saloon, surmounted the whole.
The principal apartments consist in a suite of lofty-coved saloons, nobly proportioned, and uniformly hung with damask of the deepest crimson.
The little coved room was calmly and sweetly equal to the emergency.
Heʼll be in the little coved room, no doubt, long o’ that Hismallitish woman.
Each small square ceiling is coved and ornamented with high angular ribs, rising from the cornice and intersecting each other, so as to form a different combination in each of the nine.
As it is, the long bare interior looks as though it had been destined for a picture gallery or library, but rather for the latter from the low-coved roof of cedar, and from the inadequate distribution of light.
It is 44 feet in length and 28 feet in width and height, and has a beautiful coved ceiling.
The Billiard-room has a lofty coved ceiling, and was the Great Hall of the old mansion.
The Picture Gallery, a noble apartment of admirable proportions, has a coved ceiling, rising from a cornice richly ornamented in gold and white, with figures and foliage in bold relief.
These walls were painted in encaustic, corresponding with the coved ceiling, which was richly adorned in the same fashion.
Tancred was ushered into a spacious and rather long apartment, panelled with old oak up to the white coved ceiling, which was richly ornamented.
The nave, too, is covered with a wooden roof, a kind of coved roof with tie-beams.
And an eye from Somerset looks kindly at this outlandish attempt to make a kind of coved roof, and to paint it withal.
The staircase is lighted from the top by a handsome lantern, filled with painted glass, with an elaborate coved and ornamented ceiling around.
It is in fact a coved roof, such as we are used to in woodwork in this part of England, only with cells cut in it for the clerestory windows.
Of the coved or waggon roofs of the West of England and South Wales, which modern church-restorers generally think it such a great feat to get rid of, I have written and spoken till I am nearly tired of the subject.
It is a wonderful house--deeply coved ceilings with frescoes like those in an old Venetian palace, and wide spaces round the outside planted with groves of plane-trees.
Where the coved portion flowed into the perpendicular of the wall there was a broad moulding, like a plate rail, which acted as a support for the hanging pictures.
Its ceiling, coved like the other, seemed made of some self-radiating substance from which came both light and heat.
The corridors were long and high, all with the wide-coved ceiling, and of colours that melted from one shade to another as they turned, not corners, but curves.
It has a coved roof, with a large, flat, oblong space in the centre of the ceiling.
In richer examples there might be above the panelling a coved cornice, as at Stowlangtoft and Balsham, Cambridge (3).
All Saints' has ogee canopies under a coved horizontal tester with supporting shafts, as in the cathedral.
In Bristol cathedral the stalls consist of a range of traceried panels surmounted by a horizontal coved cornice.
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