cavetto
[ kuh-vet-oh; Italian kah-vet-taw ]
/ kəˈvɛt oʊ; Italian kɑˈvɛt tɔ /
noun, plural ca·vet·tos, ca·vet·ti [kuh-vet-ee; Italian kah-vet-tee], /kəˈvɛt i; Italian kɑˈvɛt ti/, Architecture.
a concave molding the outline of which is a quarter circle.
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Example sentences from the Web for cavetto
Yet the Torcello base resembles these Gothic ones both in expansion beneath and in depth of cavetto above.
The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3)|John RuskinCavetto, ka-vet′to, n. a hollowed moulding whose curvature is the quarter of a circle, used chiefly in cornices.
One of the most distinctive mouldings is the cavetto, a wide shallow hollow in the centre of a group of mouldings.
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British Dictionary definitions for cavetto
cavetto
/ (kəˈvɛtəʊ, Italian kaˈvetto) /
noun plural -ti (-tɪ, Italian -ti)
architect a concave moulding, shaped to a quarter circle in cross section
Word Origin for cavetto
C17: from Italian, from cavo hollow, from Latin cavus
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