单词 | planchment |
释义 | planchmentn. U.S. regional. A boarded ceiling.In quot. 1995, apparently a boarded floor. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > ceiling > [noun] roofeOE firstOE first-roofOE silour1424 siling1483 ceiling1535 loftingc1540 loft1596 floor1600 plafond1664 top1709 ceil1840 planchment1874 laquearia1922 overhead1942 1874 Harper's Mag. July 188/2 There were words peculiar to the place [Marblehead, Massachusetts]. One of these was planchment for ceiling. 1891 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 4 159 Planchment, ceiling. Now seldom heard. An old woman said: ‘The roof wets so, I'm afraid the planchment'll fall’. 1903 Indiana (Pa.) Messenger (Electronic text) 28 Oct. The ceiling of a room is a ‘planchment’. 1995 B. Hansen Chess Garden (1996) i. 15 Virginia lifted it out carefully, and they could hear the click of what was inside as she set it down gently on the planchment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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