Definition of Cornice ring. Meaning of Cornice ring. Synonyms of Cornice ring

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Definition of Cornice ring

Cornice ring
Cornice Cor"nice (k?r"n?s), n. [F. corniche, It. cornice, LL. coronix, cornix, fr. L. coronis a curved line, a flourish with the pen at the end of a book or chapter, Gr. ???; akin to L. corona crown. sEE Crown, and cf. Coronis.] (Arch.) Any horizontal, molded or otherwise decorated projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed; as, the cornice of an order, pedestal, door, window, or house. --Gwilt. Cornice ring, the ring on a cannon next behind the muzzle ring.

Meaning of Cornice ring from wikipedia

- window cornice is an ornamental framework of wood or composition to which window curtains are attached by rods with rings or hooks. Cornices are often...
- 0 m) granite Doric columns from Maine. A Doric entablature with copper cornice rings the roofline. A copper dome surmounts the building, and sits above the...
- facilitate the raising of top-quality thoroughbred racehorses. A stone cornice rings the structure at the base of the roof, and on each side the roofline...
- the second, third and sixth stories. Along the rooftop an elaborate cornice rings the street-facing sides. Buff-colored bricks make up the street-facing...
- acanthus capitals. These twelve columns support a cornice with modillion decoration. Above the cornice is a second open balustrade, similar in design to...
- close rhyme or eye rhyme. In the third stanza, there is no end rhyme, but "ring" in line 2 rhymes with "gazing" and "setting" in lines 3 and 4 respectively...
- interaction with the columns and conceit of being supported by the Baptistry cornice make the tomb monument further "wedded to the architecture" around it,...
- city, over five hundred feet in diameter and as much in height to its cornice line, with a silver dome above that. The dome had an oculus, from which...
- vocabulary of classical architecture, such as the modillions of a Corinthian cornice. The corbel arch and corbel vault use the technique systematically to make...
- concrete ground-to-cornice buttresses, paired at the intersections of the side and rear facades. Around 1931, an exhibition ring and corrals were constructed...