abetted

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A pillar from the same church associates five-lobed palmettes common in 10th- and 11th-century Iran with knotted motifs reminiscent of Viking ornament.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2010

In 1943, the theater's ornamental caryatids, palmettes, trellises, cartouches and balustrades were painstakingly removed and tucked away again, safe from falling bombs.

From Time Magazine Archive

It has just occurred to me that probably you have no very distinct idea of the shape of a cocoa-palm leaf, which does not bear the slightest resemblance to the palmettes in the greenhouses.

From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by Adams, W. H. Davenport

All the most familiar ornaments of vase technic recur again and Page 32 again, maeanders, palmettes, lotuses, the scale and lattice-work patterns, the bar-and-tooth ornament, besides spirals of all descriptions.

From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various

The most elaborate palmettes and other geometrical designs can be worked out.

From Dwarf Fruit Trees Their propagation, pruning, and general management, adapted to the United States and Canada by Waugh, F. A.