cavetto
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cavettos,
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cavetti
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noun
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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
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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
Yet the Torcello base resembles these Gothic ones both in expansion beneath and in depth of cavetto above.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by John Ruskin
Thirdly: Observe the slurring of the upper roll into the cavetto, in 13, 14, and 15, and the consequent relationship established between three most important buildings, the Rio-Foscari House, Terraced House, and Madonnetta House.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) by John Ruskin
The ornamentation on the bosses of the roof, and in the cavetto below the windows, and round the great arches from the choir aisles, is very varied.
From The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See by W. D. (Walter Debenham) Sweeting
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 John Ruskin
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 Sir Walter Armstrong
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 Alexander Van Millingen
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 William Morris
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 Alexander Van Millingen
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