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Coying vs Coving - What's the difference?

coying | coving |

As an adjective coying

is enticing.

As a verb coying

is .

As a noun coving is

a concave surface, often of gypsum or expanded polystyrene (eps), forming a junction between a ceiling and a wall.

coying

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Enticing.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • 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)