volute

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Her basic eyeliner became an ornate volute, a swath of clown makeup, a cat mask.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2011

This volute is found all over Assyria and Chaldæa.

From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir

The throat underneath the volute is very massive, although all the edges are finished off with the utmost delicacy and sharp tooling.

From Antonio Stradivari by Petherick, Horace William

A slightly curved piece of timber bolted to the knees of the head, in place of a figure: finished off by a volute turning outwards, contrary to the fiddle-head.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

There is no form of the volute known to the architect which may not be found in the rocks, but there are many forms in the rocks unknown to the architect.

From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Miller, Hugh