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n. - (architecture) a molding for a cornice.

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  • There is one very curious passage in which he is talking about a very pretty girl, and wants to make it plain that she had a very beautiful mouth, and he says, "Her mouth was...
  • The corresponding cyma was of the same material and similarly decorated.
  • The parapet above, including its cyma and corona, is one half the height of the parapet below.
  • Furthermore just such cyma pieces have been discovered belonging to other structures in Olympia and amid the pre-Persian ruins on the Acropolis of Athens.
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