Definitions for cavetto

cavetto ca·vet·to

Spelling: [kuh-vet-oh; Italian kah-vet-taw]
IPA: /kəˈvɛt oʊ; Italian kɑˈvɛt tɔ/

Cavetto is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 134 anagrams from letters in cavetto (aceottv).

Definitions for cavetto

noun

  1. a concave molding the outline of which is a quarter circle.

Origin of cavetto

1670-80; Italian, equivalent to cav(o) (Latin cavus or cavum hollow place; see cave) + -etto -et

Examples for cavetto

Yet the Torcello base resembles these Gothic ones both in expansion beneath and in depth of cavetto above.

One of the most distinctive mouldings is the cavetto, a wide shallow hollow in the centre of a group of mouldings.

cavetto, ka-vet′to, n. a hollowed moulding whose curvature is the quarter of a circle, used chiefly in cornices.

Word Value for cavetto
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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