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Definition of Palmette
1. n. A floral ornament, common in Greek and other ancient architecture; -- often called the honeysuckle ornament.
Definition of Palmette
1. Noun. A motif in decorative art resembling the fan-shaped leaves of a palm tree. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Palmette
1. a type of ornament [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palmette
Literary usage of Palmette
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Irish Ecclesiastical Architecture: With Some Notice of Similar Or Related by Arthur Charles Champneys (1910)
"As to the Assyrian Sacred Tree, parts of which are very much like the palmette
or honeysuckle-pattern, if this is older, it may have affected the change of ..."
2. The Potters' Quarter by Agnes Newhall Stillwell, Jack Leonard Benson (1984)
"104), bounded at edge by black band, part of lotos-palmette cross and bird with
raised wing, ... Outer leaves of palmette form volute and continue in stems. ..."
3. The Greek Tile Works at Corinth: The Site and the Finds by Gloria S. Merker (2006)
"Preserves almost all of ridge palmette, broken along joint with cover tile element.
... Front face A and front face B of ridge palmette have no molded ..."
4. A Catalogue of the Greek Vases in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge by Ernest Arthur Gardner (1897)
"Ornamentation, on rim, egg-pattern ; on neck, wave-pattern and palmette; on
shoulder, wreath with berries, rosette in centre; below field, wave-pattern ..."
5. History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman by Henry Beauchamp Walters, Samuel Birch (1905)
"The chief feature of the new advance is that the palmette is no longer a stiff
upright design with straight unenclosed petals, the FIG. 166. ..."
6. The Temple of Apollo Bassitas by Frederick A. Cooper (1996)
"Each sima length has one full palmette, two full lotuses, and two half-palmettes.
palmettes and lotuses spring from lancets at the tangent curves of running ..."
7. The Childhood of Art; Or, The Ascent of Man: Or, The Ascent of Man; a Sketch by Herbert Green Spearing (1913)
"Perhaps to them is due the credit of having transmitted it to palmette pattern.
For the origin and development of these designs ..."
8. The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: Topography and Architectureby Nancy Bookidis, Ronald S. Stroud by Nancy Bookidis, Ronald S. Stroud (1997)
"W. through palmette 0.17, Th. at top ca. 0.022 m. Single fragment preserving most
of palmette, broken at tendrils and lower left petal. Surface find. ..."
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