ppl. a. [f. COFFER sb. and v.1 + -ED.]
1. Enclosed in, or as in, a coffer; resting on coffers.
1587. Turberv., Trag. T. (1837), 97. To unfolde Her coferd ware.
1886. Blackw. Mag., Sept., 326. A 100 feet coffered steel chain.
2. Arch. Furnished or adorned with coffers.
1869. Daily News, 13 Oct., 5/4. The coffered ceilings … have the grounds of the coffers rich crimson.
1879. Sir G. Scott, Lect. Archit., II. 138. Coffered panels which had originated in a horizontal ceiling.
