to coffer

Examples

• All

• They decided to coffer the family heirlooms in a secured chest for safekeeping.

• The artist planned to coffer the contributions he had received for the community project.

• Hallway in a high coffered hallway.

  Fiction book (1998)

• The center section of the coffered ceiling had been painted to resemble the sky by night.

  Fiction book (1991)

• A lavish little supper chamber with a coffered bed and fancy French furniture.

  Fiction book (1994)

• The ceiling was coffered and perforated, with disks that seemed to float on air.

  Fiction book (2001)

• When he had it drawing freely without a gurgle, he blew a plume of smoke at the coffered ceiling.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Beneath the coffered ceiling of a great Beaux-Arts hall, one of Washington's power tribes is celebrating.

  Fiction book (1997)

• The man was obviously extremely successful; the furnishings of his chambers were opulent, from the coffered ceiling to the Aubusson carpet on the floor.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Instead, when he glanced up from his book, it was the interior of the Pantheon that met his gaze, the orifice at the center of the dome throwing against its coffered ceiling a coin of light.

  Fiction book (2001)

How Secure

to safeguard

45 3.7

to lock away

32 3.4

to coffer

• Archaic

1 8.1

to store

463 1.0

to box

42 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology