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Coving vs Coxing - What's the difference?

coving | coxing |

As a noun coving

is a concave surface, often of gypsum or Expanded polystyrene (EPS), forming a junction between a ceiling and a wall.

As a verb coxing is

present participle of lang=en.

coving

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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. - , (Bloomsbury Publishing, paperback edition, 429)

    • coxing

    English

    Verb

    (head)