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Examples of cavetto
cavetto
It originally featured doors with cavetto cornices and winged sun disks, later removed.
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The cavity or indenture may be round, square, chamfered, beveled, diamond-shaped, or enclosed with a cavetto or listel.
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Marble sphinx on a cavetto capital, Attic, ca.
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- A concave molding shaped like a quarter circle in cross section
- Molding (USA) or moulding (AUS, CAN, UK) is a strip of material with various cross sections used to cover transitions between surfaces or for decoration. It is traditionally made from solid milled wood or plaster but may be made from plastic or reformed wood. ...
- A concave molding with the profile of a quarter round or close to it. See MOLDINGS.
- (Italian) cavare: "to hollow", concave, quarter-round molding sometimes employed in the place of the cymatium of a cornice, as in the Doric order of the theatre of Marcellus. It forms the crowning feature of the Egyptian temples, and took the place of the cymatium in many of the Etruscan temples.
- Concave zone encircling a vessel
