Thesaurus: cornice
Any horizontal, molded or otherwise decorated projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed; as, the cornice of an order, pedestal, door, window, or house.
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- n. Any horizontal, molded or otherwise decorated projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed; as, the cornice of an order, pedestal, door, window, or house.
- n. a decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing
- n. a molding at the corner between the ceiling and the top of a wall
- n. the topmost projecting part of an entablature
- v. furnish with a cornice
- Any horizontal, molded or otherwise decorated projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed; as, the cornice of an order, pedestal, door, window, or house. Gwilt. Cornice ring, the ring on a cannon next behind the muzzle ring.
- Any horizontal, molded or otherwise decorated projection whichcrowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed; as, the corniceof an order, pedestal, door, window, or house. Gwilt. Cornice ring,the ring on a cannon next behind the muzzle ring.
- n:100 n. a decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing n. a molding at the corner between the ceiling and the top of a wall n. the topmost projecting part of an entablature