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Classical vs Ovolo - What's the difference?

classical | ovolo |

As an adjective classical

is of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.

As a noun ovolo is

(architecture) a classical convex moulding carved with an (egg-and-dart) ornament.

classical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
  • * Arbuthnot
  • Mr. Greaves may justly be reckoned a classical author on this subject.
  • Of or pertaining to established principles in a discipline.
  • *
  • Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get; what you get is classical alpha-taxonomy which is, very largely and for sound reasons, in disrepute today.
  • (music) Describing European music and musicians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • (informal, music) Describing serious music (rather than pop, jazz, blues etc), especially when played using instruments of the orchestra.
  • Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
  • * Macaulay
  • He [Atterbury] directed the classical studies of the undergraduates of his college.
  • Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined; as, a classical style.
  • * Macaulay
  • Classical , provincial, and national synods.
  • (physics) Pertaining to models of physical laws that do not take quantum or relativistic effects into account; Newtonian or Maxwellian.
  • Synonyms

    * classic

    Derived terms

    * Classical Greece * Classical Greek * classical history * Classical Latin * classical music

    ovolo

    English

    (wikipedia ovolo)

    Alternative forms

    * ovulo

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (architecture) A classical convex moulding carved with an (egg-and-dart) ornament.
  • * 2001 , Adolfo J. Domínguez, Carmen Sánchez, Gocha R. Tsetskhladze (editor), Greek Pottery from the Iberian Peninsula: Archaic and Classical Periods , page 196,
  • Decoration inside: six linked palmettes with 9 petals around a band of ovolos' between incised lines, surrounded by 13 palmettes linked around a band of ' ovolos .
  • * 2005 , Robert Chitham, The Classical Orders Of Architecture , 2nd Edition, page 76,
  • Each of the pairs is connected by a kind of web, and each pair stands clear of the ovolo' and ''astragal'' mouldings which form a kind of extension to the column shaft and complete the essential construction of the capital. ' Ovolo and astragal are enriched with egg and dart and bead and reel respectively, the setting out related to a fluting pattern of twenty-four flutes to the column shaft circumference, as shown on the plan.
  • * 2008 , Roy Underhill, Eleanor Underhill, The Woodwright?s Guide: Working Wood With Wedge and Edge , page 112,
  • Using a template or a good eye to guide the paring chisel, slice off the corners of the tenon ovolos at 45 degrees.

    Synonyms

    * echinus * quarter-round

    See also

    * astragal * egg and dart ----