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
It has one, shaped like the rest, but now all plastered and framed132 in an ogee moulding.
From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum
But it is worth observing that they rarely at any time have any ogee lines.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various
In the 16th century in England variety was given to the outline of the gable by a series of alternating semi-circular and ogee curves.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
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