cyma

• The corresponding cyma was of the same material and similarly decorated It seems surprising that such a terracotta sheathing should be applied on a structure of stone. —  The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1
• The general outline of the moulding is a gracefully flowing cyma, or wave, concave at one end and convex at the other, like an Italic f_, the concavity and convexity being exactly in the same curve, according to the line of beauty which Hogarth describes The most beautiful application of Greek architecture was in the temples, which were very numerous and of extraordinary grandeur, long before the Persian War. —  Beacon Lights of History, Volume 03 Ancient Achievements
• [Footnote: The egg-and-dart is found only on the ovolo, the leaf-and-dart only on the cyma reversa or the cyma recta (concave above and convex below) Both ornaments are in origin leaf-patterns one row of leaves showing their points behind another row.] —  A History of Greek Art
• But whether his apparent depth of vision was real, or only an artistic accident of his corporeal moulding, nothing but his deeds could reveal His face was rather soft than stern, charming than grand, pale than flushed; his nose--if a sketch of his features be de rigueur for a person of his pretensions--was artistically beautiful enough to have been worth doing in marble by any sculptor not over-busy, and was hence devoid of those knotty irregularities which often mean power; while the double-cyma or classical curve of his mouth was not without a looseness in its close. —  The Woodlanders
• The corresponding cyma was of the same material and similarly decorated. —  The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms