different between coying vs coving

English

coying (comparative more coying, superlative most coying)

coying

cove +? -ing

coving (plural covings)

A concave surface forming a junction between a ceiling and a wall.
- 2005, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty (Bloomsbury Publishing, paperback edition, p.429)
  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.
The vertical sides connecting the jambs with the breast of a fireplace.

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