Meaning & use
Plafond
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A decorated ceiling, especially one featuring an elaborate painting or design, often found in grand or historic buildings.
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Tourists craned their necks to admire the painted plafond in the palace's grand hall.
The restoration project focused on cleaning centuries of soot from the chapel's plafond.
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Plafond is a French loanword, borrowed directly into English art and architecture vocabulary to describe especially ornate or painted ceilings.
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