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Ceiling

noun

The overhead upper surface of a covered space.

(meteorology) altitude of the lowest layer of clouds.

An upper limit on what is allowed. Synonyms: cap, roof. "There was a roof on salaries" , "They established a cap for prices"

Maximum altitude at which a plane can fly (under specified conditions).

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"Ceiling" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the four-square cave there was a brazier of bronze, and from each rose incense smoke, straight upward. The four streams of smoke met at the ceiling and converged into a cloud ...

— King--of the Khyber Rifles • Talbot Mundy

... the Matted Gallery, as it is now with the mats and boards all taken up, so that we walked over the rafters. But strange to see how hard matter the plaister of Paris is that is there taken up, as hard as stone! And pity to see Holben's work in the ceiling blotted on and only whited over! My wife this day with Hales, to sit for her hand to ...

— The Diary of Samuel Pepys • Samuel Pepys

... its master. His most famous pictures, in addition to the Assumption already cited, are—the "Entry of Paul III. into Bologna"; the "Francois I. Touching for King's Evil"; a "Power of Love," painted under a fine ceiling by Agostino Carracci, on the walls of a room in the ducal palace at Parma; an "Adam and Eve" (at the Hague); and two of "Joseph and Potiphar's Wife" (at Dresden and Copenhagen). His son Felice (1660-1724) and nephew Paolo (1709-1764) were ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 - "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" • Various

... then it seemed to Jenny as if Paradise burst upon her. She had never before seen such a room as this cabin. It was a room such as she had dreamed about in those ambitious imaginings of a wondrous future which had always been so vaguely irritating to Emmy. It seemed, partly because the ceiling was low, to be very spacious; the walls and ceiling were of a kind of dusky amber hue; a golden brown was everywhere the prevailing tint. The tiny curtains, the long settees into which one sank, the chairs, ...

— Nocturne • Frank Swinnerton

... had closed behind Stephen and Nevill, they were not yet in the house, but in a large court with a ceiling of carved and painted cedar-wood supported by marble pillars of extreme lightness and grace. In front, this court was open, looking on to an inner garden with a fountain more delicate of design than those Stephen had ...

— The Golden Silence • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

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