英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˈkəʊvɪŋ/
• 韻: -əʊvɪŋ

名詞

coving (plural covings)

1. A concave surface forming a junction between a ceiling and a wall.
   • 1960 March, “Restaurant Cars for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 166:

     Aluminium treadplate is used for the corridor, kitchen, and pantry floor, with aluminium covings.

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:

     The gilt lantern burned palely in the stairwell, but in the dining room the ordinary shadows deepened in the corners and hung like smoke in the coving of the ceiling.

2. The vertical sides connecting the jambs with the breast of a fireplace.
3. (urban studies) A method of urban planning used in subdivision and redevelopment of cities characterized by non-uniform lot shapes.

参考

• crown molding