egg and dart
a design for enriching an ovolo or echinus, consisting of a closely set, alternating series of oval and pointed forms.
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It is especially frequently found carved with the egg-and-dart ornament.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia | VariousMany ornamental motives, like the zigzag and the egg-and-dart, for example, had originally a symbolic value.
The Gate of Appreciation | Carleton NoyesThe neckings are worked with the capitals, and enriched by 'egg-and-dart' pointing upwards.
Byzantine Churches in Constantinople | Alexander Van MillingenIt is quite possible that the egg-and-dart pattern may have had a multiple origin.
Evolution in Art | Alfred C. HaddonEgg-and-Dart: An ornament consisting of an alternation of flattened balls or bosses with sharp pointed members like arrow heads.
How to judge architecture | Russell Sturgis
British Dictionary definitions for egg and dart
an ornamental moulding in which a half egg shape alternates with a dart, tongue, or anchor shape
(as modifier): egg-and-dart moulding
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