1) Ark 2) Bin 3) Box 4) Caisson 5) Chest 6) Treasury
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1) Caisson 2) Chest for valuables 3) French word used in English 4) Lacuna 5) Lockbox 6) Money chest 7) Panel 8) Strongbox 9) Treasure chest 10) Treasury 11) Valuables holder
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- an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome
- a chest especially for storing valuables
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a coffer, in architecture, is a sunken panel in the shape of a square, rectangle, or octagon that serves as a decorative device, usually in a ceiling or vault. Also called caissons, or lacunar.[9]
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one of a series of recessed panels in a ceiling, usually done in plaster.
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• (n.) The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam. • (n.) A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables. • (v. t.) To put into a coffer. • (n.) A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire. • (n...
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A multi-functional traveling chest with handles and a domed lid but without feet, usually made of oak.
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in architecture, a square or polygonal ornamental sunken panel used in a series as decoration for a ceiling or vault. The sunken panels were ...
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in furniture, most commonly a portable container for valuables, clothes, and other goods, used from the Middle Ages onward. It was normally a wooden ...
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recessed panel or dome in the ceiling
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In architecture, a decorative sunken panel on the underside of a ceiling.
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a sunken panel in the shape of a square, rectangle, or octagon that serves as a decorative device, usually in a ceiling or vault.
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Cof'fer noun [ Old French
cofre , French
coffre , Latin
cophinus basket, from Greek .... Confer
Coffin ,
noun ]
1. A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables.
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Cof'fer transitive verb 1. To put into a coffer.
Bacon. 2. (Mining.) To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering.
Raymond. 3. To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to furnish with a coffer or coffers.
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The sunken area created between the crossing of structural members. Coffers often appear in a flat ceiling or on the interior surface of a dome. They are often the focus of decoration and serve also to lighten the weight of the structure.
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A coffer is a casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables.
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In fortifications a coffer was a trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged troops to defend it by a raking fire.
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In architecture, a coffer is a panel or compartment deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico and of an ornamental character, usually enriched with mouldings, and having a rose, pomegranate, etc, in the centre.
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chest for holding money
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noun a chest especially for storing valuables
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A chest in which treasure is usually kept.
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a box or chest, esp. one for valuables. · a treasury; funds: The coffers of the organization were rapidly filled by the contributions. · any of various boxlike enclosures, as a cofferdam. · Also calledone of a number of sunken panels, usually square or octagonal, in a vault, ceiling, or soffit.
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The treasure chest
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[Literary terms] a chest especially for storing valuables
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[Literary terms] a chest especially for storing valuables
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