Example sentences for: coffered

How can you use “coffered” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The most interesting part is the Patio de las Doncellas (Courtyard of the Maidens), where the rooms preserve outstanding decorative features — ornamental tiles, carved stucco, and characteristic coffered artesonado ceilings.

  • Built by Emperor Hadrian around a.d. 125 on an earlier site destroyed by fire, it achieved a marvel of engineering with its magnificent coffered dome: over 43 m (141 ft) in interior diameter (larger than St. Peter’s), exactly equal to its height.

  • The coffered Renaissance ceiling glitters with the gold of the first shipments from the New World.

  • The dining room has a magnificent cedarwood coffered ceiling from a Bologna monastery, and is decorated with the flags from the Sienna palio pageant.

  • Mary and John stand on either side of the crucified Jesus upheld by his Father, while the dove of the Holy Spirit hovers between them, the whole forming an inspiring triangle under the coffered ceiling of a Renaissance chapel.


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