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 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

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.

Ionic, ī-on′ik, adj. relating to Ionia in Greece: denoting an order in architecture distinguished by the ram's-horn volute of its capital—also Iō′nian.—vs.t.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 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 Stables, Gordon