cavetto

American  

[kuh-vet-oh, kah-vet-taw] / kəˈvɛt oʊ, kɑˈvɛt tɔ /

noun

Architecture.

plural

cavettos, cavetti

1. a concave molding the outline of which is a quarter circle.

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cavetto British  

/ kəˈvɛtəʊ, kaˈvetto /

noun

1. architect a concave moulding, shaped to a quarter circle in cross section

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Etymology

Origin of cavetto

1670–80; < Italian, equivalent to cav ( o ) (< Latin cavus or cavum hollow place; see cave) + -etto -et

Example Sentences

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

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

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 Cousins, Frank

On each side of the gate, the three grains rest on three attached columns through an impost molded with a cavetto.

From Romanesque Art in Southern Manche: Album by Lebert, Marie

But instead of the lintel the arch has been introduced, and the ornament in stucco representing the Persian cavetto cornice shows imperfect knowledge of the original and is clumsily worked.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various