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- noun Architecture A double curve with the shape of an elongated S.
- noun Architecture A molding having the profile of an S-shaped curve.
- noun Architecture An arch formed by two S-shaped curves meeting at a point. Also called ogee arch.
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They won't have to have competing with ogee to upgrade their services, they can do it together.
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OKay -- bye out of print - new releases ogee trim - 2006-07-28
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Mysterious! out of print - new releases rapid update - 2006-08-24 hola - 2006-08-23 rounding a bend, if not the very last one - 2006-07-28 ogee trim - 2006-07-28
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Click back for earlier entry for today ... out of print - new releases rounding a bend, if not the very last one - 2006-07-28 ogee trim - 2006-07-28
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Like him, I am convinced that if the essential character of the Romanesque is the substitution of the vaulted roof for the truss, the distinctive element and principle of the Gothic is the buttress, and not the pointed arch I reserve my opinion, indeed, as to the accuracy of Quicherat's declaration that 'the history of architecture in the middle ages is no more than the history of the struggle of architects against the thrust and weight of vaulting,' for there is something in this art beyond material industry and a problem of practice; at the same time he is certainly right on almost every point It may be added as a general principle, that in our use of the terms Ogee and Gothic, we are misapplying words which have lost their original meaning; since the Goths have nothing to do with the style of architecture which has taken their name, and the word ogee or ogyve, which strictly means the semicircular form, is inaccurate as applied to the arch with a double curve, which has for so long been regarded as the basis, nay, as the characteristic stamp of a style.
— The Cathedral
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- Middle English oggifs, ogeus, pl. of ogif, ogive; see ogive.
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