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

It has five ogee trefoil niches with saints within them, and a framing of late Gothic foliage, with half-lengths of angels in the spandrils.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)

But was it want of money that 387 made you put that blunt, overloaded, laborious ogee door into the side of it?

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