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cornice

noun as in molding

Weak match

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The faint candle-light glimmered on a ponderous gilded cornice, which had also sustained violence.

It consists of two stories rising to a cornice topped by a steep, many-dormered roof.

A richly corbelled cornice crowns the structure, above which a spire was projected by Giotto, but never carried out.

The horizontal lines of the architrave and cornice predominate over the vertical lines of the columns.

A little later the walls began to be covered with panels of thin slabs of marble with a baseboard and cornice.

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On this page you'll find 6 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cornice, such as: band, crown, drip, frame, furnish, and eave.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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