voluted
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It closed no lantern--it obstructed no view--and its light ribs, springing from voluted corbels, bore at each intersection, an emblazoned escutcheon, or painted heraldic device.
From A Love Story by A Bushman
The treasury of the Cnidians at Delphi was Ionic, judging by the carved ornament enriching the cornice and architraves, and in the Naxian votive column we have another early example of an early voluted capital.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various
The thirteenth century shaped those low and stunted pillars, whose capitals are crowned with water-lilies, water-parsley, foliage with large leaves, voluted with crochets and turned in the form of a crosier.
From En Route by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
The windows were all irregular, one small and narrow, another very broad, all surrounded by artistically carved and voluted stone framings.
From Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso by Ossip Schubin
The heavily voluted cumulus clouds lower gloomily and threateningly; they wear that implacable look which I have sometimes noticed at the outbreak of a great storm.
From A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne
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