quarter round

American  

noun

1. a molding, as on an ovolo, whose section is a quarter circle.

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quarter round British  

noun

1. architect another name for ovolo

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Etymology

Origin of quarter round

First recorded in 1700–10

Example Sentences

Avoid fine, unintelligible mouldings, needless crooks and quirks, and be not afraid of a flat surface terminating in a plain bead or quarter round.

From Homes and How to Make Them by Gardner, E. C. (Eugene Clarence)

When a Turn is to be made but half a quarter round, it must be mark'd a quarter of a Circle on the side of the Step, without joining it to the Step.

From Orchesography Or, the Art of Dancing The Art of Dancing by Characters and Demonstrative Figures by Weaver, John

Dante felt himself as little a stranger in the "Latin" quarter round Mont St. Genevieve as under the arches of Bologna.

From History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 by Green, John Richard

The tranter turned a quarter round and smiled a smile of miserable satire at the setting new moon, which happened to catch his eye.

From Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school by Hardy, Thomas

He couldn't get a half nor a quarter round the world in the time.

From Round the World in Seven Days by Strang, Herbert