plafond
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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 Greene, Nathaniel
Oui, messieurs, he was right, and such a plafond is not produced in a day.
From Fragments of an Autobiography by Moscheles, Felix
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 hills, however, were little only because the stretch was so vast; it was really a broad plafond upon which they had solemnly entered to dance a minuet with the playful shadows of the clouds.
From Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 by Various
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