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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In architecture, a molding concave above and convex below, serving especially as a cyma to a delicate cornice; a cyma recta.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Arch.) Same as Cyma�recta, under cyma.

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  • noun architecture A cyma or ogee.

Etymologies

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From French.

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