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Definition of Low-ceilinged
1. Adjective. Having a lower than normal ceiling.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Low-ceilinged
Literary usage of Low-ceilinged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dansk-norsk-engelsk Ordbog by Johannes Magnussen (1902)
"Lavet [c] [gun-]carriage. Lav|hed [c] lowness. -hjertet [a] low-minded. Lavine [c]
avalanche. Lav|loftet [a] low-ceilinged. -maal mini- Tium; level. ..."
2. Color Value by Chandler Robbins Clifford (1907)
"... to secure broken heights: In a high- ceilinged room the furniture must not be
all high; in a low-ceilinged room the furniture must not be all low. ..."
3. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"The low doorways showed stone steps ascending somewhere in the darkness, showed
low-ceilinged rooms, whose only light was from the door, where were mothers ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1864)
"... the room a man sits in insensibly affect his manner and his bearing, and that
the habits which would not be deemed strange in the low-ceilinged chamber, ..."
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