knop
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of knop
1325–75; Middle English; Old English cnop; cognate with Dutch knop, German Knopf
Example Sentences
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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
And it was not less rich than the other, and had columns of marble all round about, and upon each a knop so rich that it seemed to be of gold.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Sebastian Evans
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
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 F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson
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
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