ppl. a. [f. COVE sb.1 and v. + -ED.] Formed into a cove; arched, vaulted.

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1756.  C. Lucas, Ess. Waters, II. 130. The well … is surrounded with a coved wall of about three feet high.

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1779.  H. Swinburne, Trav. Spain, xliv. 417 (T.). The mosques and other buildings of the Arabians, are rounded into domes and coved roofs, with now and then a slender square minaret terminating in a ball or pine-apple.

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1853.  Ruskin, Stones Ven., II. vi. § 81. 209. The roof proper may be flat, coved, or domed.

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1879.  Sir G. Scott, Lect. Archit., II. 138. Repeating on its coved surface the coffered panels.

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  b.  Coved ceiling: one rising in an arched curve; now usually one connected with the cornice by a concave curve.

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1796.  Morse, Amer. Geog., I. 489. A coved ceiling of about 10 feet high.

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1858.  Hawthorne, Fr. & It. Jrnls., I. 165. In the coved ceiling, however, there are still some bright frescos.

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1880.  Sat. Rev., No. 1292. 135. The destruction of the coved plaster ceiling of Bishop Montague.

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