Meanings
plural cielings
- obsoleteObsolete form of ceiling.
This moral kind of painting for the stage has been often compared to the painting for cupolas and cielings, where the colours are over-charged, and every part is drawn excessively large, and beyond nature.
1741, David Hume, Of Avarice
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