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
Above, the crocketed drip-mould is carried up in an ogee leaving room for the coronation of the Virgin over the apex of the arch.
From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum
Each recess has a pointed arch richly moulded, and with broad bands of very unusual leaves, while above it rises a tall ogee canopy, crocketed and ending in a large finial.
From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum
It has five ogee trefoil niches with saints within them, and a framing of late Gothic foliage, with half-lengths of angels in the spandrils.
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)
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