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- noun Plural form of
ovolo .
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Examples
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Moulding planes are sinking snipebills, side snipebills, beads, hollows and rounds, ovolos and ogees.
Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 Peter C. Welsh
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There are nothing but pillars, columnets, ovolos, and palm leaves of the
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two 1885
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"It is made of silver, adorned with ovolos at its rim, with a medal at the bottom."
Tentation de saint Antoine. English Gustave Flaubert 1850
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Scarcely could a remnant of the entablature still be distinguished at the summit of the pedestal, and beneath the cornice a string of ovolos, defaced and worn, was surmounted by what architects call a "chaplet of paternosters."
The Memoirs of Victor Hugo Victor Hugo 1843
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"Sylvie, see, he wants us to have ovolos in the cornice of the corridor."
The Celibates Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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