cornice

Four of the dogs were rescued after they fell through the cornice, but Aggie could not be found after landing in Coire Toll Mhor, a large hollow below the summit.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026

On the right, a cornice suggests a building.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 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

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

She stood on her toes and tentatively felt along the top of the cornice.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

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

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026

With its tall ceiling, round arches, chandeliers and decorated friezes, plus its famed white glazed terra-cotta facade adorned with festoons, cornices and Corinthian keystones, the building certainly has the pomp of a grand museum.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 21, 2023

In an image from Paris, ornate cornices are barely visible above rows of filing cabinets and stacks of paper; in Vienna, gilded, chandelier-lit rooms have empty bookshelves and bare curtain rods.

From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2021

Many homes we saw during our five days were white-painted stone or packed mud, with elaborate wooden windows and cornices.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2018

As a result, architects relied on old and dangerous habits, such as substituting wood for stone and decorating their buildings with wooden awnings, cupolas, and cornices.

From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

Or it could be Victorian - all about cornicing, bay windows and patterned brickwork.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2013

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