plafond

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Tu dis: 'Le plafond croule; ils vont, si l'on me voit, Empêcher que je sorte.'

From Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) by Leighton, John

Ingres, too, who in those days was considered the greatest draughtsman since the time of Raphael, had contributed a masterpiece to the decoration of the hall, a plafond, "The Apotheosis of Napoleon I."

From Fragments of an Autobiography by Moscheles, Felix

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

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.

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