Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet COFFER

Definition av COFFER

1. kassaskrin, penningkista
2. (arkitektur) kassett

Exempel på hur du använder COFFER i en mening

• There is a 22 coffer "waffle vault" ceiling at Foggy Bottom–GWU as it was one of the first stations to be built in the system; later underground stations abandoned this design for a simpler concrete arch.
• Architecturally, as part of the first generation of underground stations, the "waffle" coffer style predominates at Clarendon.
• A safe (also called a strongbox or coffer) is a secure lockable enclosure used for securing valuable objects against theft or fire.
• It was originally intended to refill the basin gradually after 8 July 2008, but a period of intense rainfall prior to that date resulted in a surge of water passing down the canal, which damaged the coffer dam protecting the empty section from the watered section.
• Suddenly, the wind from the storm shatters a window, blowing the vapour around the room, and black smoke pours out of the coffer.
• In total, $63 million was endowed for the construction of the concrete dam and spillway, the main earth dam, coffer dams, roadway and railroad facilities, reservoir clearing, utility relocations, access roads, a canal with access to the Tennessee River, public use facilities, and general yard improvements.
• These include September, October, November, December, amber, blister, cadaver, chamber, chapter, charter, cider, coffer, coriander, cover, cucumber, cylinder, diaper, disaster, enter, fever, filter, gender, leper, letter, lobster, master, member, meter (measuring instrument), minister, monster, murder, number, offer, order, oyster, powder, proper, render, semester, sequester, sinister, sober, surrender, tender, and tiger.
• After discussion with Sir George Home, Roger Aston, and the Earl of Nottingham, some jewels were sent to the goldsmiths John Spilman and William Herrick for valuation, with an ivory coffer, and a "great rich glass set with diamonds rubies emeralds and pearls, made in the form of a woman upon a pillar or case holding a clock with diverse motions" brought from the Tower of London.
• In November 1582, the English diplomat Robert Bowes heard from James Douglas, Prior of Pluscarden, that both the coffer and the "originals of the letters betwixt the Scottish Queen and the earl of Bothwell" had been delivered to the Earl of Gowrie, who was leading the government of Scotland at that time.
• The British East India Company (EIC) had annexed much of the kingdom under its rule in a treaty signed with the Nawabs in 1801 and stymied the Awadh economy by imposing the costs of maintaining the Bengal Army on the kingdom's coffer, in addition to repeatedly demanding loans.
• Pulling from a vast coffer of Hindu mythos, Burman reimagines traditional depictions of female goddesses by imbuing them with bright color and energy.
• He declared that he found there a prioress and four or five nuns, of whom one had 'two fair children' and another 'one child and no more'; and also describes how Lord Mordaunt had induced the prioress and her 'foolish young flock' to break open the coffer containing the charters of the priory, and to seal a writing in Latin of which they did not understand a word, but were told it was merely the lease of an impropriate benefice.
• Francesco Borromini's dome of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (1638–41) has a novel oval plan that approximates an ellipse using four circular arcs based on the vertices of two large equilateral triangles; a complex geometrical coffer pattern of crosses, octagons, and lozenges is repeated eight times on the dome's inner surface.
• In some societies, this surreptitious custom is attached to a particular term, idiom, or other cultural expression: In Japan, it is referred to as hesokuri ("navel hoarding"), or in the past it was haribako-gin ("sewing box silver"); in Germany, it is referred to as schwarze Kasse ("black coffer"); and in Eastern European Jewish communities, it is called the knipl ("knot", as in a knotted kerchief).
• She buys seven djellabas and seven pairs of babouches, and locks the gifts in a coffer, making a wish for the coffer to only open by the hand that locked it.

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