ogee

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Although dating from the 17th century, Vauban’s military structure has an ogee barrel vault curiously evocative of Cistercian constructions like the chapel in the abbey at Le Thoronet in Provence.

From New York Times • May 28, 2010

Embedded in this color is a profusion of shapes: balls and balusters, cubes, boxes, spikes, seamed and weathered palings, fragments of ogee and cavetto molding, the fossils of the Age of Wood.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Aisles of the Choir are entered from the transepts by ogee arches, which have crockets and finials, and are flanked by a pair of pinnacles on either side.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Dearmer, Percy

The doorway is surmounted by a rich ogee crocketted canopy with finial, and is panelled above.

From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by Rogers, William Henry Hamilton

I do not include in this statement of the rare occurrence of the ogee, the European countries which were subject to Moorish rule, i.e.

From Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess