ogee
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Although dating from the 17th century, Vauban’s military structure has an ogee barrel vault curiously evocative of Cistercian constructions like the chapel in the abbey at Le Thoronet in Provence.
From New York Times ● May 28, 2010
Embedded in this color is a profusion of shapes: balls and balusters, cubes, boxes, spikes, seamed and weathered palings, fragments of ogee and cavetto molding, the fossils of the Age of Wood.
From Time Magazine Archive
The poor cornice is surmounted by a low attic, within which rises a hideous ogee plastered roof.
From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum
On it are the indents of a knight, and lady in horned head-dress, under an ogee crocketted canopy, flanked by pinnacles, evidently of contemporary date with the tomb.
From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by Rogers, William Henry Hamilton
Almost ready to complete the blast-off ogee, and— Angrily he belted the scanner switches off and the dull red sphere faded from the viewplates.
From A Gift For Terra by Holden, Fox B.
Vocabulary lists containing ogee
