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raking cornice

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noun

Architecture.
  1. either of two straight, sloping cornices on a pediment following or suggesting the slopes of a roof.


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The raking cornice is like the horizontal cornice except that it has no dentels.

From A History of Greek Art by Tarbell, Frank Bigelow

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