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

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

"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

Seeking the summit, Steidl saw snow cornices, rocks and a sharp drop-off.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2022

The back story encouraged me to actually look up and take stock of the graceful arched windows and ridiculously detailed cornices stretching as far as I could see down lower Broadway.

From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2021

A couple of hours later, there was round two, a joint press conference with Niinistö under the cornices and crystal chandeliers of the east room.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2019

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

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

When Lopsang saw that Hansen was faltering, he held up his own descent long enough to make sure Doug and Rob made it safely across a dangerously corniced area just below the top.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

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