plafond

Example Sentences

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Beautiful oil-paintings, in tasteful gold frames, ornament the plafond; but the magnificent chandelier is the greatest curiosity. 

From Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North by Pfeiffer, Ida

On the plafond of the Pergola is an allegorical painting representing the restored Kings of Europe replaced on their thrones by Valor and Justice.

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

Have some paper cases ready, which lay on a plafond with some paper underneath.

From Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet by Payne, A. G.

Within the thickness of this wall, staircases descend to a lower gallery over the plafond of the proanos of the colonnade lighted from above.

From History of the Washington National Monument and of the Washington National Monument Society by Harvey, Frederick Loviad

Oui, messieurs, he was right, and such a plafond is not produced in a day.

From Fragments of an Autobiography by Moscheles, Felix