coffered

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒfəd/
• Rhymes: -ɒfəd

Adjective

coffered

1. (architecture) Having coffers.

   coffered ceiling

   • 1922 October, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “Part II. A Game of Chess.”, in The Waste Land, 1st book edition, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, published December 1922, →OCLC, page 18:

     […] stirred by the air / That freshened from the window, these ascended ⁠/ In fattening the prolonged candle-flames, / Flung their smoke into the laquearia, / Stirring the pattern on the coffered ceiling.

Derived terms

• uncoffered

 

Translations

having coffers

• Finnish: kasetti- (fi)
• Galician: artesoado (gl)
• Hungarian: kazettás (hu)

Verb

coffered

1. simple past and past participle of coffer

Anagrams

• efforced, force fed, force-fed, forcefed