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

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)

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 term was applied in architecture to various forms of ornamentation taking the shape of a scroll, such as the volute of an Ionian capital.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various

Any kind of man, beast, or bird, it has been said, can put himself into such a posture as to make an Ionic volute.

From Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine by Hutton, William Holden