voluted

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Conventionally Ionic in detail, with smooth columns and voluted capitals, it pleases the eye but lacks the impressiveness of the doorway at Cliveden.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Cousins, Frank

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 Schubin, Ossip

I am struck once more by the majestic air of that opening square of Frascati, expanding upwards into terraces, lawns, and ilexes, all flanked by pinnacled and voluted buildings, Villa Aldobrandini, or whatever it is.

From The Spirit of Rome by Lee, Vernon

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)

He was a small, podgy person with a round oily face and heavy voluted moustaches.

From Kimono by Paris, John