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noun. A horizontal molded projection that crowns or completes a building or wall.

noun. The uppermost part of an entablature.

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noun. A strip of molding that runs along the upper part of a wall just below the ceiling.

noun. An ornamental horizontal molding or frame used to conceal rods, picture hooks, or other devices.

noun. An overhanging mass of windblown snow on a ridge or the crest of a mountain.

transitive verb. To supply, decorate, or finish with or as if with a cornice.

noun. In architecture, any molded projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed; specifically, the third or uppermost division of an entablature, resting on the frieze. (See column.) When the crowning course of a wall is plain, it is usually called a coping.

noun. An ornamental molding, usually of plaster, running round the walls of a room just below the ceiling.

noun. In upholstery, an ornamental band or molding which covers and conceals the rod or hooks from which curtains, etc., are hung.

noun. A molding or strip of wood, plain or gilded, fastened to the walls of a room, at the proper height from the floor, to serve as a support for picture-hooks; a picture-cornice.

To furnish or finish with a cornice.

noun. Any horizontal, molded or otherwise decorated projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed.

noun. the ring on a cannon next behind the muzzle ring.

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. See also: eaves, fascia.

noun. A decorative element applied at the topmost part of the wall of a room, as with a crown moulding.

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

noun. a decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing

noun. a molding at the corner between the ceiling and the top of a wall

verb. furnish with a cornice

noun. the topmost projecting part of an entablature

"Running under the cornice was a faint carved inscription."

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