plafond

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Nothing can be more rich than this plafond.

From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Frye, Major W. E

The salle de danse is peculiarly elegant, and in one of the apartments is a fine painting on the plafond representing Jupiter hurling thunderbolts on the Giants.

From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Frye, Major W. E

Silken carpets covered the floor, and the plafond of this gigantic hall was formed by the thousand-starred arch of heaven.

From The Daughter of an Empress by Greene, Nathaniel

On the plafond is a painting representing the discovery of America by Columbus; for the Genoese duly appreciate, and never can forget their illustrious countryman.

From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Frye, Major W. E

The hills, however, were little only because the stretch was so vast; it was really a broad plafond upon which they had solemnly entered to dance a minuet with the playful shadows of the clouds.

From Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 by Various