cavetto
[kuh-vet-oh; Italian kah-vet-taw]
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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.
Nearby words
- cavernous nerve of penis,
- cavernous rale,
- cavernous sinus,
- cavernous sinus syndrome,
- cavesson,
- caviar,
- cavicorn,
- cavie,
- cavil,
- cavill
Origin of cavetto
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Examples 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.
English Villages|P. H. Ditchfield
cavetto
noun plural -ti (-tɪ, Italian -ti)
Word Origin for cavetto
C17: from Italian, from cavo hollow, from Latin cavus
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