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

The volute is a serpent with blue scales and serrated crest, enclosing a winged figure of St. Michael and a dragon studded with turquoises.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Dearmer, Percy

The cone over the straight inside pipe was made with volute flanges on its under side, which gave a rotary motion to the sparks.

From Illustrated Catalogue of Locomotives Baldwin Locomotive Works by Baird, Matthew

Our progress was stopped, in the sixth of a mile, by the edge of the ridge connecting the two peaks, and we perceived that it curled over in a lovely volute.

From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Whymper, Edward