Coving

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊvɪŋ

Full definition of coving

Noun

1. A concave surface, often of gypsum or Expanded polystyrene (EPS), forming a junction between a ceiling and a wall.See also crown molding.
• 2005 : 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. - Alan Hollinghurst, , (Bloomsbury Publishing, paperback edition, 429)