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ceiling

Overhead surface of a room, and the underside of a floor or roof. Suspended ceilings, which hang from the beams above, are used to conceal construction, mechanical equipment, wiring, and light fixtures. During the Renaissance, ceilings were often coffered (see coffer), vaulted (see vault), or transformed into one large framed painting.
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Under the pitch of the roof ran a ceiling cloth, which looked just as nice as a whitewashed ceiling.
From Mine Own People by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
A few ingots toppled from the higher tiers, a single piece of the rocky ceiling splintered off and crashed downward to the floor, and the walls cracked, though they did not collapse.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
How do you know it wasn't a drop of water falling off the ceiling on him?
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