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

He begs Mme. de Labadye to take hold of it; and a music-box falls into his hands, which, before the séance, was placed upon the ogee, in the corner concealed by the curtain.

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille

For the cornice, thus attached to the arch, suffers exactly the same changes as the level cornice, or capital; receives, in due time, its elaborate ogee profile and leaf ornaments, like Fig.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John

Though the chancel is square inside, the corners outside are cut off by a very broad chamfer, and a very curious ogee curve unites the two.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum