adj
Meaning 1
Having some specified type of ceiling.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: in-compounds, not-comparable
Examples
- 1824, Richard Polwhele, "Proserpine at her Loom, from the Latin of Claudian" in Elegant Extracts from the most Eminent British Poets. Part XI. Translations. London: Charles S. Arnold, p. 186, https://books.google.ca/books?id=8R4NAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false On brazen beams the roofs supported rise, / While amber pillars of transparent dyes / Tinge, as they prop the ivory-ceiled halls, / With rich reflected light their lofty walls.
- 1885-9, John Ruskin, Praeterita, edited by Francis O'Gorman, Oxford University Press, 2012, Chapter VII, section 152, For Dr Andrews' was the Londonian chapel in its perfect type, definable as accurately as a Roman basilica,— an oblong, flat-ceiled barn, lighted by windows with semi-circular heads [...]
- 1898, Rudyard Kipling, "William the Conqueror" Part I, in The Day's Work, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2569/2569-h/2569-h.htm The little windows, fifteen feet up, were darkened with wasp-nests, and lizards hunted flies between the beams of the wood-ceiled roof.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ceilinged
Antonyms: unceiled, unceilinged