voluted
Example Sentences
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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 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 Marguerite, Countess of Blessington
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 Walter Crum Watson
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
He was a small, podgy person with a round oily face and heavy voluted moustaches.
From Kimono by John Paris
