Grand Hotel, Montecatini, Italy

A projecting strip of curvilinear profile projecting from a surface of a building, or the curvilinear finishing of the edge of two meeting surfaces.

Also see Architecture / Skin / Molding.

Variations include: antefix, anthemion, applied, arched, archivolt, arrowhead, astragal, band, base, bead (astragal, flush, fusarole, quirk), beak, bellflower, bevel, billet, bolection, cable, calf’s tongue, cant, cap, casing, cat’s head, cavetto (Egyptian, vine), chair rail, chamfer, chevron, circular, combined (bird’s beak, bowtell, cyma, lamb’s tongue, ogee), cone, convex, cornice, corona, cove, crosette, crown, curved, dogtooth, dovetail, drip, drop, egg and dart, egg and tongue, fillet, floral, flower, flute, foliate, fret, frieze, geometric, Gothic, grape, half round, heart, hip, hood, impost, indented, interlacing, knotwork, label, lattice, leaf, ledgement, lip, lobes, lozenge, medallion, nailhead, nebule, neck, notch, ovolo, ox eye, papyrus, pearl, periform, picture, planted, plaster, plinth, projection, quatrefoil, quirk, rail, rake, reed, reel, regula, reticulated, return, reveal, ribbon, roll, rose, round, running, sawtooth, scallop, scotia, scroll, shoe, spiral, square, star, stop, struck, sunk, talon, thumb, torus, trellis, triangular, Venetian, vine, Vitruvian, wave, weather, zigzag

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