voluted
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The windows were all irregular, one small and narrow, another very broad, all surrounded by artistically carved and voluted stone framings.
From Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso by Ossip Schubin
Conventionally Ionic in detail, with smooth columns and voluted capitals, it pleases the eye but lacks the impressiveness of the doorway at Cliveden.
From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Frank Cousins
The pediment has a simple cornice around it, and the angles are finished by voluted pilasters without a base, but with Ionic capitals, which have an extraordinary effect.
From The Idler in France by Marguerite, Countess of Blessington
Tomaso pointed a slender, brown finger at a circular heading, whereon a pink aeroplane did a "nose dive" toward the date line through voluted blue clouds.
From Skyrider by Anton Otto Fischer
The heavily voluted cumulus clouds lower gloomily and threateningly; they wear that implacable look which I have sometimes noticed at the outbreak of a great storm.
From A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne
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