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Definition of Cornice
1. Verb. Furnish with a cornice.
2. Noun. A decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing.
3. Noun. A molding at the corner between the ceiling and the top of a wall.
4. Noun. The topmost projecting part of an entablature.
Definition of Cornice
1. n. Any horizontal, molded or otherwise decorated projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed; as, the cornice of an order, pedestal, door, window, or house.
Definition of Cornice
1. Noun. (architecture) The topmost architectural element of a building, projecting forward from the main walls, originally used as a means of directing rainwater away from the building's walls. ¹
2. Noun. A decorative element applied at the topmost part of the wall of a room, as with a crown moulding. ¹
3. Noun. A decorative element at the topmost portion of certain pieces of furniture, as with a highboy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cornice
1. to decorate with a molding [v -NICED, -NICING, -NICES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cornice
Literary usage of Cornice
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"The term is used loosely for any very plain wall cornice. cornice HOOK. A hook
for hanging pictures from the cornice or picture moulding of a CORNICIONE. ..."
2. The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin (1873)
"In Plate XVI., opposite, I have thrown together a few of the most characteristic
mediaeval examples of the treatment of the simplest cornice profiles: the ..."
3. Papers of the British School at Rome by British School at Rome (1904)
"The cornice recurs, with the same text, in drawing No. ... A cornice no longer
extant in the church of SS. Quattro Coronati, and of which no other record ..."
4. Papers of the British School at Rome by British School at Rome (1904)
"The cornice recurs, with the same text, in drawing No. ... A cornice no longer
extant in the church of SS. Quattro Coronati, and of which no other record ..."
5. The Design of Steel Mill Buildings and the Calculation of Stresses in Framed by Milo Smith Ketchum (1921)
"cornice.—There are many methods of finishing the gables and eaves of buildings.
... The steel end may have a cornice made by bending the corrugated steel as ..."
6. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1888)
"Since many pieces of the same cornice are found in totally different places, ...
The difference between the horizontal cornice of the sides and the sloping ..."
7. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1904)
"Above the upper niches is a cornice of simple profile, but excellent and refined
... 7); the course below the cornice is set out 1 inch from the wall-face ..."
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