cavetto
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Origin of cavetto
1670–80; < Italian, equivalent to cav ( o ) (< Latin cavus or cavum hollow place; see cave) + -etto -et
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Embedded in this color is a profusion of shapes: balls and balusters, cubes, boxes, spikes, seamed and weathered palings, fragments of ogee and cavetto molding, the fossils of the Age of Wood.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the other hand, the later Gothic base, 11, has always its upper roll well developed, and, generally, the fillet between it and the cavetto vertical.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) by Ruskin, John
Each grain is molded with a thick angle torus followed by a listel and a broad shallow cavetto.
From Romanesque Art in Southern Manche: Album by Lebert, Marie
It was no more than a bit of moulding, the upper edge of which caught the sun, directly, making the cavetto underneath it a soft yellowing glow.
From The Tower of Oblivion by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
The grain is molded with a thick angle torus followed by a listel and a large shallow cavetto.
From Romanesque Art in Southern Manche: Album by Lebert, Marie
This is combined with series of fillets, small ogees, and cavettos into jamb-moulds of considerable richness.
From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Van Millingen, Alexander
The cornices are often simply splayed or are formed of a series of ogees, fillets, and cavettos.
From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Van Millingen, Alexander
In section this moulding may be compared to a large scotia divided into two cavettos by a torus.
From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir
But the first of the cavettos wherein these figures are, is at any rate filled with figures of angels, some swinging censers, some bearing crowns, and other things which I cannot distinguish.
From The World of Romance being Contributions to The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, 1856 by Morris, William
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