cornice
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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
She reached again, this time lunging a bit, and managed to grab on to the cornice.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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"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
There, he worked with the interiors’ existing volumes and decorative flourishes, painting gilded frames and cornices on the walls and ceilings that veered wildly off course.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2022
Seeking the summit, Steidl saw snow cornices, rocks and a sharp drop-off.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
The rocks are piled high, like an ancient ruin; some have gathered moss and feature decorative elements like cornices or inscriptions by the builders.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2018
One critic praises not only the show but the entresol itself, admiring the lack of “high class decor,” no plush drapes or gilded cornices, as in the rest of the gallery.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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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
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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
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The seat of Uniforce is Fontainebleau, the carved and corniced residence of French kings.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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
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