voluted

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Miss Ingate looked round at the shabby study, with its guns, cigar-boxes, prints, books neither old nor new, japanned boxes of documents, and general litter scattered over the voluted walnut furniture.

From The Lion's Share by Bennett, Arnold

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 Schubin, Ossip

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 Fischer, Anton Otto

She took him into the parlour, where he was set down among strange voluted foreign shells with a pink flush within the wide mouth of every one of them.

From The Lilac Sunbonnet by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

The treasury of the Cnidians at Delphi was Ionic, judging by the carved ornament enriching the cornice and architraves, and in the Naxian votive column we have another early example of an early voluted capital.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various