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

In the western apse, the pilasters are replaced by tall detached Doric columns, and the Ionic pilasters above by buttresses which grow out of voluted curves.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum

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 Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)

She took him into the parlour, where he was set down among strange voluted foreign shells with a pink flush within the wide mouth of every one of them.

From The Lilac Sunbonnet by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

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 Verne, Jules