bead and reel

American  

noun

Architecture.

1. a convex molding having the form of elongated beads alternating with disks placed edge-on, or with spherical beads, or with both.

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Etymology

Origin of bead and reel

First recorded in 1950–55

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bead and reel

Moulding with anthemion, plait, maeander, and leaf, bead and reel patterns.

From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by A. H. Smith

There are traces of the bead and reel moulding on the margin of this metope.

From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by A. H. Smith

There are no mouldings, but a slight bead and reel along the interior edge of the arches.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson

An astragal with the customary bead and reel separates the cymatium and the corona, while a drilled rope supplies the bed molding above the dentil course.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Frank Cousins

A cavetto molding, enriched with a bead and reel astragal and another drilled rope torus, outlines the dark marble facings about the fireplace opening.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Frank Cousins