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单词 ceiling-board
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ceiling-board
C1. Mostly attributive, as ceiling-board, ceiling-joist, ceiling-lamp, ceiling-light, ceiling-relievo, ceiling-sky, ceiling-work; also ceiling-wards adv.
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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.
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