camp ceiling

noun

: a ceiling common in top stories and attics that consists of a plane horizontal central surface joined at two sides by inclined surfaces which meet the side walls

Word History

Etymology

alteration (influenced by camp) of earlier cant ceiling, from cant + ceiling

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