volute
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Her basic eyeliner became an ornate volute, a swath of clown makeup, a cat mask.
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2011
On their heads they wore high mitres, also of crimson velvet, curving backward in a volute, and encircled at the base with a coronet of tinsel spear-heads.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. by Various
It was by far and away the largest I have ever seen—quite an armful of a volute.
From In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life by Gordon Stables
In the centre of the volute is a stud of marble separately made.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by A. H. Smith
You may be steeped to the lips in that temperament, and yet not be able to arrange flowers with deftness, draw a volute, or strike a true chord.
From The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
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