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Webster 1913 Edition
Cornice
Cor′nice
(k?r′n?s)
, Noun.
[F.
corniche
, It. cornice
, LL. coronix
, cornix
, fr. L. coronis
a curved line, a flourish with the pen at the end of a book or chapter, Gr. [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK]; akin to L. corona
crown. sEE Crown
, and cf. Coronis
.] (Arch.)
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 houseGwilt.
Cornice ring
, the ring on a cannon next behind the muzzle ring.
Webster 1828 Edition
Cornice
CORNETTER
, CORNETER, CORNICE,Noun.
1.
In architecture, the uppermost member of the entablature of a column, or the highest projecture; that which crowns and order.2.
A little projecture in joinery or masonry; as the cornice of a chimney.Cornice-ring of a cannon, is the ring next from the muzzle-ring backward.
Definition 2024
cornice
cornice
English
Noun
cornice (plural cornices)
Cornice, Wainwright Bldg, St. Louis (Louis Sullivan)
- (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 moulding.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess:
- The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.
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- A decorative element at the topmost portion of certain pieces of furniture, as with a highboy.
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Translations
horizontal architectural element
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decorative element at top of room
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decorative element on furniture