Meanings
adjectiveunceiled (not comparable)
- not comparableNot ceiled.
First Purchase was unceiled and unpainted within. Along its walls unlighted kerosene lamps hung on brass brackets; pine benches served as pews.
1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC1 more example
The cell was such a one as a convict would now disdain to inhabit. A low lean-to roof; the slates and rafters unceiled; the stone walls and floor unplastered.
1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 3, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 86
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