plafond
Example Sentences
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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 Major W. E Frye
Nothing can be more rich than this plafond.
From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Major W. E Frye
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 Felix Moscheles
Oui, messieurs, he was right, and such a plafond is not produced in a day.
From Fragments of an Autobiography by Felix Moscheles
Silken carpets covered the floor, and the plafond of this gigantic hall was formed by the thousand-starred arch of heaven.
From The Daughter of an Empress by Nathaniel Greene
