nebuly molding

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An overhanging band whose lower, projecting edge is shaped to a continuous undulating curve. The term is evidently derived from the heraldic adjective nebulee or nebuly, while the member so described is hardly to be considered as a molding. Common in Romanesque architecture and perhaps derived from the so-called wave molding. (Jones, 1992)

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nebule molding
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