cornice

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

A blast wave is said to have damaged a plastered cornice on the eastern façade but not affected the interior.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 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

One step was complete; now she had to cross the cornice over to a drainpipe.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

"Recent observations show areas of unstable snow, with cornices forming in several locations near the top of the mountain," it said, in a Facebook post on Thursday.

From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2026

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

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2024

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

Columns were piled on pilasters, rusticated plinths groaned under heaving cornices and every junction was elaborated with a twiddly moulding.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 12, 2017

Some of the stores were old with graceful eaves and cornices; others had been modernized or sterilized with plate glass windows and neon; still others were new.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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 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

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

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

From The Guardian ● Dec. 23, 2018

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