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

The great halls of the Ducal Palace at Venice and the galleries of the Pitti Palace at Florence were ceiled in this way.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

A dreary place it showed as they entered, large, low ceiled, extending above the whole expanse of the square portion of the house.

From The Storm Centre by Murfree, Mary Noailles

There is as much misery riding and driving about in carriages as there is walking about on foot: there is as much unhappiness in ceiled houses as in humble cottages.

From Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by Ryle, John Charles

It was small, low ceiled and badly lighted.

From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram