plafond
Americannoun
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plafonds
plural
noun
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a ceiling, esp one having ornamentation
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a card game, a precursor of contract bridge
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Etymology
Origin of plafond
1655–65; < French; Middle French platfond ceiling, literally, flat bottom, i.e., underside. See plate 1, fund
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Have some paper cases ready, which lay on a plafond with some paper underneath.
From Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet by A. G. Payne
Oui, messieurs, he was right, and such a plafond is not produced in a day.
From Fragments of an Autobiography by Felix Moscheles
Within the thickness of this wall, staircases descend to a lower gallery over the plafond of the proanos of the colonnade lighted from above.
From History of the Washington National Monument and of the Washington National Monument Society by Frederick Loviad Harvey
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
Did not the great Monsieur Delacroix say with his characteristic modesty, when his plafond in the Galerie d'Apollon was uncovered: 'Where should I be without the assistance of my friend Sinel?'
From Fragments of an Autobiography by Felix Moscheles
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