volutes

• “To illustrate: The Ionic has, as one feature, two scroll-like ornaments, called volutes, and it has more moldings and is much more slender than the Doric.”

  The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages

• “I also would just stand there, staring at those stone coils -- called volutes, I believe -- of the Ionic capitols.”

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• “The Corinthian order is also very feminine in nature, characterised primarily by its ornate capitals, which sport two rows of sculpted acanthus leaves with small volutes spiral scrolls in the corners.”

  The Guardian: Renaissance architecture: how to identify the Roman orders

• “Features include a "double-height arcade faced with marble, elaborate terra cotta ornamentation on the third story," and "a deep, copper mansard roof with richly ornamented dormers with broken pediments, volutes and cartouches of terra cotta," and an "exuberant Renaissance Revival style [that] complements the dramatic atmosphere of the theater district," according to the Community Board.”

  Paramount Hotel, La MaMa Theater and Two Townhouses Landmarked

• “But it has been a long trip from monkeys swinging in golden volutes on the walls of the Salon des Singes in 18th-century Paris to the curves that challenge convention today.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Lure of the Curve

• “The volutes, and those other curliques, and whatnot.....”

  Negative space.

• “Are there any volutes and acanthus leave carvings?”

  Negative space.

• “The majestic port-cochere, complete with Corinthian Doric? columns, pediment, volutes etc...”

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• “In addition to the alternating peaked and rounded pediments above the windows, and the volutes rolling out of the eaves beneath the canopy of slate rooftop, a new front door, made of a solid block of maple ringed in steel, and surveillance cameras revealed the present day.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Art Thief

• “From the vital ovoids ran a pattern of sparkling threads, irised and brilliant as floss of molten jewels; converging with interfacings of spirals, of volutes and of triangles into the nucleus.”

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