cornice

How To Use cornice In A Sentence

• In greco-roman architecture it is a horizontal Band, often decorated with relief sculpture , Between the architrave and cornice of a Building.
• The modillion was a bracket, a horizontal version of the ancones which supported the cornice of the Greek doorway cornice.
• The Romans invented a distinct cornice for the Corinthian order, characterized by large projecting modillions embellished with acanthus leaves.
• The flat fourth story is crowned by an emphatic cornice, above which is a tall mansard roof sheltering two more stories.
• In the wild there is no piste patrol to pick up the pieces, and the mountains bristle with rocks, cliffs and cornices.
• Perhaps inspired by the elegant Georgian style houses he recalled from his boyhood in Haverhill, Massachusetts, he trimmed his two-story clapboarded house with quoins and a cornice with dentils.
• The principal rooms, both downstairs and upstairs, have decorative mantelpieces and cornices that are imaginatively conceived and neatly executed.
• The windows are surmounted by rusticated wooden jack arches with superimposed keystones, and a heavy modillion cornice crowns the bold Georgian proportions of the facade.
• The original cornice was sheared off from the existing backup stone and replaced with new marble.
• With an original oak floor, this area also features a carved oak ceiling rose, pediments, cornices and architraves.