ceiled

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From a wall, one group draped a biblical quotation: "Is it time for you, O Ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses and this house lie waste?"

From Time Magazine Archive

And the greater house he ceiled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and wrought thereon palm trees and chains.

From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall

It is hard to die even in the curtained chambers of our ceiled houses, with sympathizing friends administering every possible alleviation.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Harper, Various (magazine)

The room was about twelve feet high, and was ceiled by a circular arched roof, which still remains.

From March to Magdala by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

It was low ceiled, and the bending beams between the strips of whitewash were almost black.

From The Heath Hover Mystery by Mitford, Bertram