cornice

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.

   “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.”

2. isim A decorative element applied at the topmost part of the wall of a room, as with a crown molding.

   “That ceiling was covered with square compartments,[...] It was supported by a gilded cornice, carved into a thousand curious shapes and emblems, among which the horned wolf, the crest of the Avonleigh family, was conspicuous.”

3. isim A decorative element at the topmost portion of certain pieces of furniture, as with a highboy.

   “And blood was on the roof, and great gouts of blood on the walls and on the cornice of my bed.”

4. isim An overhanging edge of snow on a ridge or the crest of a mountain and along the sides of gullies.
5. fiil To furnish or decorate with a cornice.