Cornice is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CORNICE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to decorate with a moulding
• furnish with a cornice
• furnish or decorate with or as if with a cornice
NOUN:
• an ornamental moulding round the wall of a room just below the ceiling.
• a horizontal moulded projection crowning a building or structure, especially the uppermost member of the entablature of an order, surmounting the frieze.
• an overhanging mass of hardened snow at the edge of a mountain precipice.
• decorative moulding round the top of a wall
• Any horizontal, molded or otherwise decorated projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed; as, the cornice of an order, pedestal, door, window, or house.
• a decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing
• a molding at the corner between the ceiling and the top of a wall
• the topmost projecting part of an entablature
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to decorate with a molding

Words related to CORNICE

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Words that contain CORNICE

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How to use CORNICE in a sentence

• Above, a heavy circular cornice joins a dome-shaped roof, clothed with frescoes, through which the light descends through a central lantern.
• A few yards down the avenue another shell hit a cornice and sent a ton or so of masonry crashing down on the sidewalk.
• Upon the flat surface formed by this cornice were to be four large statues, one of which, that is, the Moses, now exists at S.
• Catching at the coarse ivy vine which climbed up the old wall of the house, she saw that it ascended past her window to the very cornice where the white pillars joined the roof.
• My brother, seeing the slope still beyond, and not knowing it was merely the cornice overhanging a precipice of several thousand feet, rushed onward.
• Its shining walls rose against April sky to a simple cornice like a streak of white fire.
• There he was, right up close to the cornice in the corner by the door, as though some one had glued him to the ceiling.
• Over the west door there is a low turret, and below the cornice is a row of ten heads, in a good state of preservation, which are considered to be of excellent workmanship.
• It is partly supported by a cornice, which runs around the porch, and gives it a firmer foundation than the small branches of the honeysuckle could do.
• A painted inscription in many colors, just under the cornice of the ceiling, informed me that the works on the walls were the production of the all-accomplished Dexter himself.
• She had come by Simplon, and was returning by the Cornice road to Marseilles.
• Larsan, who thought and prepared for everything in case of any emergency, had fixed this spike into the cornice.
• The beam ends shown in the figure project beyond the face of the wall and support an overhanging coping or cornice.
• There is a cornice above the windows extending from the tower to the east end.
• The parapet makes but a poor show in comparison with the rich windows and cornice.
• A cornice of carved stonework covered with thin plates of gold ran round the walls, and from this dropped hangings of the most delicately embroidered stuffs.
• In the strip of dark blue firmament visible above the admirably proportioned cornice he caught sight of two planets flaming high in the west, and in close juxtaposition.
• The decorations beneath the cornice consist of eighteen large frescoes, and six statues in marble, above life size.
• It was behind the cornice of the cupboard, but I could see it.
• The clerestory range is filled by a row of semi-circular headed windows, separated by intervening flat buttresses, which reach to the cornice.
• This is a smoothed surface which shows a narrow cornice ledge above it, and a narrow base below.
• It will give an idea of the scale of ornament, if a cornice looks just the right size on a certain building, the plate will tell you just how high that is.
• Around, under the cornice, were arranged a number of old black-looking portraits, in all probability the authors of some of the works in the glass cases beneath.

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