cove

The ceiling cove, once green, has been returned to its original white color.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026

This tucked-away cove is one of the most iconic areas of the lake, known for its turquoise waters, steep granite cliffs and dense pine forests.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025

There have been a number of similar rockfalls at the same cove, including a major landslip earlier this year, which occurred after days of heavy rainfall.

From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2024

On a promontory above Puget Sound, a Douglas fir with arms bent at right angles stands above a quiet cove, where shellfish would have been gathered, long before this place was settled by newcomers.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2023

I looked anxiously towards the mouth of the cove where the waves were breaking upon the rocks.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

Inside, coved ceilings hang over hardwood floors in the living spaces.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2022

Though it is state-of-the-art, the gallery looks splendidly 19th-century, with a coved ceiling and an overhead window that lets daylight in.

From Economist ● Sep. 18, 2014

All are put to good use, as are the coved recesses that allow for overlapping scenes.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 16, 2012

This led by the late 1960s to works known as light encasements, squares of monochrome plastic with neon lights embedded along the edges, intended to be installed in white rooms with coved corners.

From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2012

Tancred was ushered into a spacious and rather long apartment, panelled with old oak up to the white coved ceiling, which was richly ornamented.

From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Among those who left their mark are a group believed to have worked on the coving in 1968 and the earliest, a plasterer, T Harwood whose signature is dated 1843.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025

This day of proceedings was characterized by those coving the trial as tense, as LaPierre repeatedly "tried to insert justifications for expenditures which Sheehan elicited in his questions."

From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2021

I like to think the old face is still underneath like a piece of buried Victorian coving, snarling and bantering to itself behind the immobile corporate façade.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2010

As at Hope Lodge a broad plaster coving is the principal feature of the simple cornice.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Cousins, Frank

The couch was overturned, with its coving and pillows strewn about.

From Astounding Stories, July, 1931 by Various