Cornice vs Corniced - What's the difference?
cornice | corniced |
(architecture) A horizontal architectural element of a building, projecting forward from the main walls, originally used as a means of directing rainwater away from the building's walls. See also: eaves, fascia.
A decorative element applied at the topmost part of the wall of a room, as with a crown moulding.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 A decorative element at the topmost portion of certain pieces of furniture, as with a highboy.
With a cornice.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=June 22, author=Roberta Smith, title=In Venice, Peter Greenaway Takes Veronese’s Figures Out to Play, work=New York Times
, passage=Close-ups of the faces in the painting, appearing on the side walls between Palladio’s great corniced windows, alternate with apparitional red diagrams of portions of the composition, seen as if from above. }}
As a noun cornice
is (architecture) a horizontal architectural element of a building, projecting forward from the main walls, originally used as a means of directing rainwater away from the building's walls see also: eaves, fascia.As an adjective corniced is
with a cornice.cornice
English
(wikipedia cornice)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.}}
corniced
English
Adjective
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