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Definition of Ogees
1. ogee [n] - See also: ogee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ogees
Literary usage of Ogees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Treatise on Architecture, Including the Arts of Construction, Building by William Hosking, Arthur Ashpitel, Thomas Tredgold, Thomas Young, John Robinson (1867)
"Fillets and splays are common in early styles, but ogees, whether direct or reversed,
... The wave mould also has a small bead, where the two ogees meet, ..."
2. Among the Moors: Sketches of Oriental Life by Georges Montbard (1894)
"The plane surfaces of the capitals, whose corbel tables form the arcade, are
worked with lovely arabesques, and the arrises of narrow ogees, ..."
3. Roorkee Hydraulic Experiments by Allan Cunningham (1881)
"1) of 67 Openings (47 large and 10 small : the latter are—from the form of their
bed—styled ogees); these are ordinarily kept closed (to prevent the escape ..."
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