volute
Example Sentences
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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
Pentelic marble; width from centre of volute to centre of volute, 12¾ inches.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.
I could see that it was alive, and was a volute of some kind.
From In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life by Stables, Gordon
The throat underneath the volute is very massive, although all the edges are finished off with the utmost delicacy and sharp tooling.
From Antonio Stradivari by Petherick, Horace William
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