voluted

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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)

Tomaso pointed a slender, brown finger at a circular heading, whereon a pink aeroplane did a "nose dive" toward the date line through voluted blue clouds.

From Skyrider by Fischer, Anton Otto

The pediment has a simple cornice around it, and the angles are finished by voluted pilasters without a base, but with Ionic capitals, which have an extraordinary effect.

From The Idler in France by Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of

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

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