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

It has a flat ogee head with round projections which give it a roughly trefoil shape, and is framed in rope mouldings of great size, which end above in three curious finials.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum

These are triangular, while the upper windows in the towers have ogee canopies.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various

This I believe to have been the simple origin of most of the Venetian ogee 320 cornices; but they are farther complicated by the curves given to the leafage which flows over them.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John