cornice
IPA: kˈɔrnɪs
noun
- (architecture) A horizontal 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.
- A decorative element applied at the topmost part of the wall of a room, as with a crown molding.
- A decorative element at the topmost portion of certain pieces of furniture, as with a highboy.
- (geography, mountaineering) An overhanging edge of snow on a ridge or the crest of a mountain and along the sides of gullies.
verb
- (transitive) To furnish or decorate with a cornice.
Advertisement
Examples of "cornice" in Sentences
- Running under the cornice was a faint carved inscription.
- Above the cornice is another monolith, the lower part squared and the upper shaped into a pyramid.
- Over the middle of the cornice is a seated deity with hands extended, the right over the Eye of Horus, and the left over a pool.
- That clumsy structure called the cornice, for putting up curtains on, has happily given place to the more light and graceful curtain pole.
- Above the cornice is a blocking course, surmounted by an attic, with an appropriate cornice and sub-blocking, to add to the height of the building.
- The upper series above the cornice was the more important of the two, on account of the chronological inscriptions which accompanied and explained each medallion.
- A cornice is the uppermost division of the entablature, the representative of the roof, of an order, consisting of projecting mouldings and blocks, usually divisible into bed-moulding, corona, and gutter.
- The ladder just reached the edge of the cornice, that is to say, the sill of the window; so that, by standing upon the last round but one of the ladder, a man of about the middle height, as the king was, for instance, could easily talk with those who might be in the room.
- Underneath the cornice was a crimson velvet vallance, separated into divisions, the lower portion of each division being rounded with gold, while its centre was decorated with gold, embroidered, and raised ornaments illustrative of the military orders, and of the emblems of the United Kingdom, the Rose, the
Advertisement
Advertisement