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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 coving
 凹圓線

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Cove, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coved p. pr. & vb. n. Coving.] Arch. To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
    The mosques and other buildings of the Arabians are rounded into domes and coved roofs.   --H. Swinburne.
 Coved ceiling, a ceiling, the part of which next the wail is constructed in a cove.
 Coved vault, a vault composed of four coves meeting in a central point, and therefore the reverse of a groined vault.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Cov·ing n. Arch. (a) A cove or series of coves, as the concaved surface under the overhang of a projecting upper story. (b) The splayed jambs of a flaring fireplace.
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