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

Example Sentences

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knop

The bowl is usually entirely plain, to facilitate keeping it clean; most of the decoration was lavished on the knop, a rich and uneven surface being both beautiful and functional in this place.

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 Addison, Julia de Wolf Gibbs

The knop has eight roundels with niello crosses crossleted; on the stem are saints in niello in vesicas.

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

There is a bishop's crozier of the end of the twelfth century, Romanesque in style, decorated with seven pieces of rock-crystal arranged diagonally, and with a knop of the same, set at a later date.

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

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 Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)

Here, however, the figures of supernatural beings are replaced by rosettes and by two lines of the knop and flower ornament.

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