Word.ws English Dictionary

eggs and darts

eggs and darts is the plural of egg and dart.

Meaning of egg and dart

Noun

egg and dart (plural eggs and darts)

  1. An ornamental device adorning the fundamental quarter-round, convex ovolo profile of moulding, consisting of alternating details on the face of the ovolo: typically an egg-shaped object alternating with a V-shaped element such as an arrow, anchor, or dart.
    • There were various armchairs […] beneath a high ceiling with plaster egg and dart cornices, brocaded curtains and a blazing fire of sycamore logs.2019, Niall Williams, This is Happiness, Bloomsbury (2020), page 203

Questions about eggs and darts

What is eggs and darts the plural of?
Eggs and darts is the plural of egg and dart.

Words near eggs and darts in the dictionary

  1. eggroll
  2. eggrolls
  3. eggs
  4. eggs and bacon
  5. Eggs and Bacon Bay
  6. eggs and darts
  7. eggs Arlington
  8. eggs benedict
  9. eggs benny
  10. eggs Blackstone
  11. eggs Chesapeake

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: eggs and darts (page history and authors); egg and dart (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “eggs and darts.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/eggs_and_darts. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.