Coving
WiktionaryText
Noun
- A concave surface, often of gypsum or expanded polystyrene, forming a junction between a ceiling and a wall.
Quotations
- 2005 : The gilt lantern burned palely in the stairwell, but in the dining room the ordinary shadows deepened in the corners and hung like smoke in the coving of the ceiling. - Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, (Bloomsbury Publishing, paperback edition, 429)