Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Canopied. See ceil, v.
  • Provided with a ceiling.
  • Wainscoted.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of ceil.

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Examples

  • They range from the kitschy "La Maison Voyageurs," with a stuffed Bengali tiger, mock-tortoise sofa and giant live palm in the living room to the high-ceiled zen-white Maison Blanche, filled with only white furniture a Barcelona banquette by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a marble table by Florence Knoll and Plexiglas chairs by Philippe Starck.

    Coasting High in Provence Lanie Goodman 2011

  • Kiefer's show is awesome when the works are viewed individually as well as when viewed panoramically in Gagosian's benevolently high-ceiled West Chelsea space s.

    David Finkle: Anselm Kiefer's Magnificent Must-See Gagosian Gallery Show David Finkle 2010

  • Kiefer's show is awesome when the works are viewed individually as well as when viewed panoramically in Gagosian's benevolently high-ceiled West Chelsea space s.

    David Finkle: Anselm Kiefer's Magnificent Must-See Gagosian Gallery Show David Finkle 2010

  • Kiefer's show is awesome when the works are viewed individually as well as when viewed panoramically in Gagosian's benevolently high-ceiled West Chelsea space s.

    David Finkle: Anselm Kiefer's Magnificent Must-See Gagosian Gallery Show David Finkle 2010

  • The room, which was small and low-ceiled, was furnished with a heap of empty bottles piled up in one corner.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • At that time his well-known establishment consisted of two dining-halls, at right angles to each other; long, narrow, low-ceiled rooms, looking respectively on the Rue Neuve-deRichelieu and the Place de la Sorbonne.

    A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

  • We also really, really need to get the loft ceiled and insulated; it costs money in winter and makes the house stifling hot in summer.

    Electricity and Gas and Water ailbhe 2007

  • The rooms were large, ceiled with peeled poplar rods, and floored with split white pebbles set in clay.

    Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004

  • There was a large, low-ceiled room, with clacking, rattling machines at which men in white shirt sleeves and blue gingham aprons were working.

    Sister Carrie 2004

  • Zanders led the way through a dark, somber hall, wide and high-ceiled, to a farther gate, where a second gateman, trifling with a large key, unlocked a barred door at his bidding.

    The Financier 2004

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