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

Their favourite motive seems to have been the volute, to which, however, they gave an endless variety.

From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir

The curious Dalmatian square-leaf enrichment, channelled in six radiating stri�, and terminating in a small volute at the top corner occurs here.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)

A crude anticipation of the volute is found in Phoenician work, and it also appears on a Hittite relief at Boghaz Keui in the middle of Asia Minor.

From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.

There is no form of the volute known to the architect which may not be found in the rocks, but there are many forms in the rocks unknown to the architect.

From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Miller, Hugh