plafond
Americannoun
noun
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a ceiling, esp one having ornamentation
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a card game, a precursor of contract bridge
Etymology
Origin of plafond
1655–65; < French; Middle French platfond ceiling, literally, flat bottom, i.e., underside. See plate 1, fund
Example Sentences
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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 Payne, A. G.
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 Frye, Major W. E
Tu dis: 'Le plafond croule; ils vont, si l'on me voit, Empêcher que je sorte.'
From Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) by Leighton, John
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
On the plafond of the Pergola is an allegorical painting representing the restored Kings of Europe replaced on their thrones by Valor and Justice.
From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Frye, Major W. E
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