2. Verb. (past of coffer) ¹
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Definition of Coffered
1. coffer [v] - See also: coffer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coffered
Literary usage of Coffered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Papers of the Archaeological Institute of America by Archaeological Institute of America, William Cranston Lawton, Joseph Silas Diller, Joseph Thacher Clarke (1898)
"Reference has already been made to the fact, that in the coffered beams of the
pronaos ... BEAM FROM coffered CEILING OF PRONAOS. (For Scale, see Fig. 20. ..."
2. A History of Architecture by Russell Sturgis, Arthur Lincoln Frothingham (1915)
"From the Farly Christian basilicas he borrowed their arcades and coffered ceilings.
... coffered ..."
3. Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx by John Rhys (1901)
"In a shipwreck mas coffered in an hour •d Ac doctor sees many etde-rash, herpes,
pem- x *~ i observation : when with me at college teased or annoyed subject ..."
4. Historic and Monumental Rome: A Handbook for the Students of Classical and by Charles Isidore Hemans (1874)
"... the enormous remains of the coffered vaulting, we should enter the court, over
the inner side of which these ruins hang like a beetling rock of marble. ..."
5. History of Ancient Art by Franz von Reber, Joseph Thacher Clarke (1882)
"... the corner metopes are, for instance, trapezoidal. Whether these curves, the
existence of which is not to be denied, were y •> •> ! Fig. 141.—coffered ..."
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