plafond
Americannoun
plural
plafondsnoun
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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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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
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
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
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
Oui, messieurs, he was right, and such a plafond is not produced in a day.
From Fragments of an Autobiography by Moscheles, Felix
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