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• The pendentives themselves visually support a cornice ring which then forms the base for the cupola.1993, Susan Elizabeth Klaiber, Guarino Guarini's Theatine Architecture - Volume 1, page 266. From the entry cornice ring
• The semiglazed chintz curtains are hung from a rod placed inside a painted wooden cornice.1928, Helen Koues, Helen Koues on decorating the house in the early American, colonial, English, and Spanish manner, page 116. From the entry semiglazed
• Valances, swags, or cornices may be installed over draped walls to enhance the impression of a window treatment.2007, Karla J. Nielson, Interior Textiles: Fabrics, Application, and Historic Style, page 168. From the entry draped
• As a result, many buildings scalped of their cornices in the mid-20th century have been recrowned in the last decade.2007 January 7, Christopher Gray, “Along Broadway, Jettisoned Cornices Are Being Rebuilt”, in New York Times. From the entry recrown
• Here and there you could still stumble across a cobblestone street, across eighteenth-century houses with painted cornices and street mirrors.2004, Rachel Pastan, This Side of Married, →ISBN, page 158. From the entry street mirror
• Any move on to these cornices could only bring disaster.1953, Edmund Hillary, “The Summit”, in The Ascent of Everest, Hodder & Stoughton, →OCLC, page 202. From the entry Kangshung Face
• The Patentees made no claim to any special form of hook or attachment to the curtain rod, or cornice ring.1915, Reports of Patent, Design, and Trade Mark Cases, page 553. From the entry cornice ring
• A series of simple architrave mouldings framed the fireplace opening, and above was a carved frieze and a dentilled cornice on carved consoles.1963, Survey of London: The Parish of St. James Westminster, volumes 29-30, page 530. From the entry dentilled
• A fine-scale denticulated molding in the cornice, repeated elsewhere in the exterior wood trim, lends an air of exceptional richness and refinement.1920, Frank Cousins, Phil M. Riley, The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. From the entry molding
• The southern side has a cornice at second floor level and both have a top cornice which is dentilled at the left and on the near central tower.2016, Steve Ellwood, Newcastle in 50 Buildings, →ISBN. From the entry dentilled

Meaning of cornice

1. noun A horizontal architectural element of a building, projecting forward from the main walls, originally used as a means of directing rainwater away from the building's walls.
2. noun A decorative element applied at the topmost part of the wall of a room, as with a crown molding.
3. noun A decorative element at the topmost portion of certain pieces of furniture, as with a highboy.

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How do you use cornice in a sentence?

Cornice is used as a noun and verb. For example: “It is a large square structure, two and a half stories in height, with a hipped roof rising above a handsome cornice with prominent modillions and surmounted by a balustraded belvedere.”

What is a short sentence with cornice?

“Any move on to these cornices could only bring disaster.”

What does cornice mean?

Cornice means a horizontal architectural element of a building, projecting forward from the main walls, originally used as a means of directing rainwater away from the building's walls.