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

There is a finely crocketed ogee west door and plain south porch.

From Edge Hill The Battle and Battlefield by Walford, Edwin

Almost ready to complete the blast-off ogee, and— Angrily he belted the scanner switches off and the dull red sphere faded from the viewplates.

From A Gift For Terra by Holden, Fox B.

Above the finial of the ogee runs a corbel table supporting a pierced and crested parapet, a little different in design from the rest.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum