knop

American  

[nop] / nɒp /

noun

1. a small knob or similar rounded protuberance, especially for ornament.

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knop British  

/ nɒp /

noun

1. archaic a knob, esp an ornamental one

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Etymology

Origin of knop

1325–75; Middle English; Old English cnop; cognate with Dutch knop, German Knopf

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knop

The knop is an elaborately niched and pinnacled architectural feature of two stories with figures in the niches and beneath the canopies.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson

The third has a knop with window tracery, pinnacles, and flying buttresses; on the foot, of a later date, are graceful leaf-arabesques, rather like the work of Aldegrever.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson

Chalices were-composed of three parts: the cup, the ball or knop, and the stem, with the foot.

From Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance by Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison

We may show this very clearly by a more careful study of two motives already encountered, the rosette, and the running ornament which is known in its countless modifications as the "knop and flower pattern."

From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Sir Walter Armstrong

The knop of the shaft is encircled with eight elaborately wrought bosses, ornamented with garnets and sapphires in gold settings.

From Report of Commemorative Services with the Sermons and Addresses at the Seabury Centenary, 1883-1885. by Diocese Of Connecticut