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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See] Reference

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 dog-tooth ornament.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See] Reference

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 following line.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 273, September 15, 1827] Reference

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 ancient Egyptian temples and facades.    From Wordnik.com.  [19th-Century Egyptian Revivalism] Reference

It forms an astragal under the cavetto cornice and runs down the angles of the pylons and walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference

The doors and windows had banded architraves or trims and cavetto cornices very Egyptian in character.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference

A bold but shallow cavetto or hollow cornice moulding is frequently carried along the wall just under the parapet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.] Reference

I should prefer however to have only the ovolo of the Abacus carved, and it's cavetto plain, as may be seen in Scamozz Chambray's edition B.II. chapt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to and from Jefferson, 1821 [a machine-readable transcription]] Reference

In front, a king with a sword in his right hand points to a handkerchief embroidered and fringed, with a head on it, carved on the cavetto of the abacus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stones of Venice [introductions]] Reference

The ancient Persian use of columns was almost entirely abandoned, but doors and windows were still treated with the banded frames and cavetto-cornices of Persepolis and Susa.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference

They are now recognized to be debased imitations of late Greek work of the third or second century B.C. They have Egyptian cavetto cornices and pyramidal roofs, like many Asiatic tombs.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference

Gateways like those of the temples on a smaller scale, the cavetto cornice on the walls, and here and there a porch with carved columns of wood or stone, were the only details pretending to elegance.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference

A terraced pyramid supported an altar or shrine to the southwest of the palace; at the west corner was a temple, the substructure of which was crowned by a cavetto cornice showing plainly the influence of Egyptian models.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference

Then there were two things which he noticed before any other -- the bow of that vast Norman arch which spanned the opening into the south transept, with its lofty and over-delicate roll and cavetto mouldings; and behind it the head of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nebuly Coat] Reference

A large and bold but shallow hollow moulding or cavetto, in which, when forming part of a horizontal fascia or cornice, flowers, leaves, and other sculptured details are often inserted at intervals, is a common feature; and such moulding, without any insertion, is frequent in doorway and window jambs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.] Reference

The hood moulding over the windows often consists of a quarter-round or ogee, with a cavetto beneath, and sometimes returns horizontally along the walls as a string-course; a disposition, however, more frequently observable in the Early English style than in this: of such disposition the churches of Harvington, Worcestershire, and of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.] Reference

They approximate more nearly, in section and appearance, those of the thirteenth than those of the fifteenth century, but the members are generally more numerous than in those of the former style; quarter-round, half, and tripartite cylinder mouldings, often filleted along the face and divided by small cavetto mouldings, sometimes deeply cut, are common.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.] Reference

Although, in this style, pointed arches constructed from almost every radius are to be found, the complex four-centred arch, commonly called the Tudor arch, was almost peculiar to it; and the cavetto or wide and rather shallow hollow moulding, a characteristic feature of this style, often appears in the architrave mouldings of pier arches, doorways, and windows, and as a cornice moulding under parapets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.] Reference

The said Giacomo Raggi agrees and covenants that he will furnish the said University with ten Corinthian bases of Marble of Carrara of quality equal to that of the capitels lately received from Thomas Appleton, and two Pilaster bases shewing each a front & flank with returns of ten minutes at each angle where they are to ajoin the wall and in addition to the said bases shall be the listel and cavetto, which are generally considered as part of the shaft of the column, but here to be made solid with the base, that the said bases shall be proportioned to a column of three English feet in diameter, to be modeled with the utmost exactness according to the Bases of the Pantheon of Rome as drawn by Palladio in his book of Architecture, to be dress, polished and finished in the best manner, each base to be of a single and sound piece of Marble that they shall be packed singly in strong and sufficient cases of wood, and delivered before the first day of June of the ensuing year on board of some.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to and from Jefferson, 1823] Reference