voluted

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I am struck once more by the majestic air of that opening square of Frascati, expanding upwards into terraces, lawns, and ilexes, all flanked by pinnacled and voluted buildings, Villa Aldobrandini, or whatever it is.

From The Spirit of Rome by Lee, Vernon

The thirteenth century shaped those low and stunted pillars, whose capitals are crowned with water-lilies, water-parsley, foliage with large leaves, voluted with crochets and turned in the form of a crosier.

From En Route by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)

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

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

In the western apse, the pilasters are replaced by tall detached Doric columns, and the Ionic pilasters above by buttresses which grow out of voluted curves.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum