Volutes is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for VOLUTES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• VOLUTE, any marine shell of the genus Voluta or related genera, allied to the whelks
• a spiral scroll characteristic of Ionic capitals and also used in Corinthian and composite capitals.
• a deep-water marine mollusc with a thick colourful spiral shell which is prized by collectors.
ADJECTIVE:
• forming a spiral curve or curves
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a spiral architectural ornament

Words related to VOLUTES

volute9

Words that contain VOLUTES

evolutes11 involutes12 convolutes15

How to use VOLUTES in a sentence

• The body of the temple is a columnar structure, exhibiting at either corner a broad pilaster surmounted by a capital composed of two sets of volutes placed one over the other.
• The light lay upon a red beard, a freckled neck, the crimson of the volutes of an ear.
• Two hours passed, and he still sat watching the red beard of a compositor, and the crimson volutes of an ear.
• The lids are of a white sugary marble, the mouldings coarse and semicircular in section, and the volutes and circular endings of the lids are of a perfectly stupid design.
• The Ionic capital, belonging to a more feminine style, exhibits the abacus subordinated to that beautiful cushion-shaped member with its two spirally marked volutes.
• Their black shiny hair, like liquorice, was arranged in fantastic volutes, which were adorned with silver bell-like ornaments and paper flowers.
• Later the hero Mataora taught a more graceful style which dealt in curves, spirals, volutes and scroll-work.
• The capitals of the columns want the gracefulness of the Corinthian, and the volutes are but puny illustrations of that beautiful order.

Similar words containing VOLUTE without suffix s

volute9 evolute10 voluted11 evoluted12 evolutes11 involute11 obvolute13 revolute11 convolute14 involuted13 involutes12 obvoluted15 convoluted16 convolutes15 involutely16 convolutely19 involutedly18 supervolute16 convolutedly21 convolutedness20

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