ovolo

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[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.]

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  1. noun A rounded convex molding, often a quarter section of a circle or ellipse.

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  1. Obsolete Italian, diminutive of uovo, ovo, egg, from Latin ōvum; see awi- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Italian ovolo, ovolo, from Middle Latin ovulum, a little egg, diminutive of Latin ovum, egg: see ovule, ovulum. Cf. ovum, 4.
 

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