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

The canopies, which bow forward, have trefoil ogee arches, surmounted with crockets and finials.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See by Clifton, A. B.

The outer sides of the ogee, which ends in a large finial, are enriched with large vine-leaf crockets.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum

Two of its many mouldings are enriched with smaller cuspings, and one, the outermost, with a line of wavy tracery, while the whole ends in a crocketed ogee.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum