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

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quarter round

The quarter round the Place Vendôme is certainly one of the finest in Paris, and most decidedly the dearest.

From How to Enjoy Paris in 1842 Intended to Serve as a Companion and Monitor, Containing Historical, Political, Commercial, Artistical, Theatrical And Statistical Information by F. Hervé

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 John Richard Green

At New Orleans, which is quarter round the world from Greenwich, it would be just in his horizon.

From The Brick Moon and Other Stories by Edward Everett Hale

I had been turned fully a quarter round.

From Sight Unseen by Mary Roberts Rinehart

It is about two milds and a quarter round the city; the walls are thirty or forty feet high; there are thirty-four towers on the walls, and the city has eight gates.

From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Marietta Holley