| 单词 | ceiling-board |
| 释义 | > as lemmasceiling-board C1. Mostly attributive, as ceiling-board, ceiling-joist, ceiling-lamp, ceiling-light, ceiling-relievo, ceiling-sky, ceiling-work; also ceiling-wards adv. ΚΠ c1520 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 202 Johanni Henryson..sawyng seylyng bordes per iij dies et di., 21d. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lxxiii. [lxxiv.] 6 They cutt downe all the sylinge worke of ye Sanctuary with bylles & axes. 1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 68 Seeling Joyses on Cellaring. 1738 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) (at cited word) A covering of plaister, over laths nailed on the bottom of the joists that bear the floor of the upper room; or where there is no upper room, on joists for the purpose: hence called Ceiling Joists. 1840 T. Hood Miss Kilmansegg i, in New Monthly Mag. 60 90 Nothing but gold!.. On the walls..the ceiling-sky. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) vii. 59 The ceiling lamp is muffled up in a dismal sack of brown holland. 1850 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art (new ed.) §402. 537 A Nereid..in a ceiling-relievo at Palmyra. 1879 Daily News 21 Aug. 3/1 These princesses who piously fold their hands and look ceiling-wards. 1915 Pearson's Mag. 39 130 A big room, whose ceiling-lights were veiled with vivid red. 1936 M. Bentinck tr. Colette Saha the Cat i. 20 Camille switched off the ceiling lights as if in play. < as lemmas |
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