cavettos
- plural of cavetto.
Example Sentences
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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
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
