cornice

When auditors came to search Freymond’s desk, the story took a farcical turn: Freymond had tried to dispose of the incriminating papers by stashing them outside his office window, on the cornice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2025

In the most superficial way, the addition is a contextual match for the main house—it is white, and it is a similar height, with a cornice and a matching parapet.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2025

Its poor structural condition was exposed in 2012 when bits of its elaborate cornice began falling off after an especially harsh winter which required a multi-million euro renovation the following year.

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2024

As your eyes adjust in the dark, unlit details fade in: a coat of aluminum paint on the cornice, a staircase through the curtain, a tracing of mortar among stones in the foundation.

From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2024

A cornice was merely a horizontal decorative projection.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Team leader Iain Nesbitt said the incident highlighted the risks posed by cornices.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026

Large cornices are more likely to fail during warmer weather, the agency said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2024

The townhouses offer traditional styling on the outside, including porches, gables and cornices that fit in with the surrounding housing.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2022

When warmed by the sun, cornices can break.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2018

She could just make out the top two floors of the Griffin Building, with its white cornices that blazed in the sunlight.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

Within Chinatown’s gridlike layout, you can spot a few examples of the low-rise Italianate brick or white stucco and corniced buildings that predate a devastating fire in 1900.

From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2020

The program is not for the faint of heart, as the terrain is dramatic and moderately technical, often requiring the guide to short-rope guests on the rocky outcrops and corniced sections.

From Time Magazine Archive

The seat of Uniforce is Fontainebleau, the carved and corniced residence of French kings.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had one day of seclusion with his family in the big, ornately corniced house of Mrs. David Wallace, his mother-in-law.

From Time Magazine Archive

We had to haul the sledge up and over each knife-edged or fantastically corniced top, then slide her down, and up over the next one: for they never seemed to run parallel to our course.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Running along the edge, where the ceiling meets the walls is block cornicing, which Phramaha Prasert said was so that the temple remained "sympathetic to its Edinburgh location".

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2022

Somewhere, someone is running a judgemental finger along your cornicing.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 23, 2018

Gaston Hall itself, with its elaborately painted walls, stained glass windows and wood cornicing is named after William Gaston, the college’s first student, who owned numerous slaves but also supported the abolition of slavery.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 1, 2016

Yanique makes it clear from the beginning that she is not interested in the framing and cornicing of realism.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 11, 2014

The walls and ceilings were peppermint, and here and there, you’d see a bit of fishing net, or a rotted piece from a boat stuck up high near the cornicing.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro