Definitions for cornice

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cornice cor·nice

Spelling: [kawr-nis]

IPA: /ˈkɔr nɪs/

Cornice is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 134 anagrams from letters in cornice (cceinor).

Definitions for cornice

noun

1. Architecture. any prominent, continuous, horizontally projecting feature surmounting a wall or other construction, or dividing it horizontally for compositional purposes. the uppermost member of a classical entablature, consisting of a bed molding, a corona, and a cymatium, with rows of dentils, modillions, etc., often placed between the bed molding and the corona.
2. any of various other ornamental horizontal moldings or bands, as for concealing hooks or rods from which curtains are hung or for supporting picture hooks.
3. a mass of snow, ice, etc., projecting over a mountain ridge.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish or finish with a cornice.

Origin of cornice

1555-65; Italian: literally, crow (Latin cornix); for the meaning, compare Greek korṓnē crow, crown

Examples for cornice

The supporting part in a Greek Doric cornice is extremely small.

If this were really a cornice it must now be very thin, he thought.

Occasionally there were a cornice and pediment over the entrance.

I threw my legs over the sill, and sitting on the stone surveyed the cornice.

Personally, I should be inclined to try the first cornice anyhow.

The entablature is a positive triumph in cornice, frieze and architrave.

The cornice, of which the frieze is adorned with eight masks, rests on corbels.

But I did not like to think of her going up and down the cornice.

Of the cornice only the bed mould, carved with a leaf and tongue, remains.

The windows are lintelled and the cornice is of the typical Turkish form.