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n. - An inward curving molding shaped like a quarter circle in cross section.

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  • The ornamentation on the bosses of the roof, and in the cavetto below the windows, and round the great arches from the choir aisles, is very varied.
  • In the spaces between the shafts of the middle arch, but not of the others, are crockets for the whole height, and the innermost cavetto is entirely filled with...
  • In the crown cavetto of the cornice is an Egyptian winged globe, entwined with serpents, emblematical of time and eternity; and on the faci below is engraved the...
  • The structure, designed by John B. Jervis, had blank walls, huge central and corner pylons, and a blank cavetto cornice, a concave bracket that lines the edge of many...
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