raftered

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I never tire of the spiky seafood fritters arranged around corn salsa or sauteed trout strewn with pecans in a raftered dining room that’s a ringer for Clyde’s.

From Washington Post

Half a mile up to the raftered ceiling hung with red, dusty drapes or banners all ragged with the years.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Deep inside there was a hollow hall, raftered with dead branch and bramble, and roofed with the first leaves and shoots of spring.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

He chose a pallet at last and lay down, but all night long he lay with open eyes there in the raftered hall among the sleep of strangers.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Every corner of the low, raftered room was filled to over-flowing with chairs and tables.

From The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness