cavetto

American  

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

noun

Architecture.

• cavettos,
  plural
• cavetti
  plural

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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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• cavetti
  plural
• cavettos
  plural

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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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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

cavetto cavettos

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

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

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 Frank Cousins

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

The grain is molded with a thick angle torus followed by a listel and a shallow cavetto.

From Romanesque Art in Southern Manche: Album by Marie Lebert

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

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

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

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