Examples of cornice in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Here, red is the standout shade, reminiscent of a vintage train carriage with a sweeping red sofa wrapping the room, red walls, and a deep-red ceiling with gold cornice details. — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 28 Feb. 2022 The living room features a Greek pattern etched into the cornice that runs to the elliptical bay in the center of the room. — Eric Piasecki, Town & Country, 3 Feb. 2022 The angle of my bridge and the curvature of the snout itself create a steep slope to a cornice—perfect for sending poorly fit coverings off the edge. — Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 11 Dec. 2020 But at this point, the space has been studied within an inch of its life, and no formal maintenance or even basic crack-monitoring program is in place, notwithstanding the fissures that run through the ceiling’s curved cornice. — New York Times, 21 May 2021 The lime-green paint that accents the zigzagging cornice remains, faded but intact. — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Nov. 2021 Another tower, a mansard roof and a stone cornice were also later taken off. — Madison Iszler, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Nov. 2021 The Granacki study described the 1910 YMCA as a historic brick structure with wood double-hung windows, a projecting metal cornice just below simple brick parapet wall and decorative brick diaper panels between third-story windows. — Suzanne Baker, chicagotribune.com, 11 Aug. 2021 But even that notorious neighborhood once had a prime, when each modest structure had its own character, its own purpose and the owner's name on the cornice. — James Lileks, Star Tribune, 16 July 2021 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb To match the profile and ornamentation of the lost cornice, which features rosettes alternating with concave brackets, Allen photographed the sister cornice at 31 Greene. — John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2020 Similarly he had missing sections of hand carved cornicing restored. — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 2 May 2018 Similarly he had missing sections of hand carved cornicing restored. — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 2 May 2018 See More

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History and Etymology for cornice

Noun

earlier cornish, borrowed from Middle French corniche, borrowed from Italian cornice "cornice on a column," earlier, "ledge projecting from a rock wall," perhaps going back to Latin cornīc-, cornīx "crow" (assuming a figurative sense "projection, something jutting out" in Vulgar Latin), derivative (with -īc-, -ix, particularizing suffix), from a base *kor-n-, perhaps from the oblique of an n-stem *kor-ōn seen in Greek korṓnē "crow"; the base *kor- "corvid," with different suffixation, seen also in Umbrian curnaco "crow," Greek korak-, kórax "raven," Latin corvus "raven," and, if going back to Indo-European *ḱor-, Russian soróka "magpie," Polish sroka, Serbian & Croatian svrȁka (with secondary -v-), Lithuanian šárka (from Balto-Slavic *ḱor-Hk-), Sanskrit śāri- "kind of bird"

Note: For an association between something projecting and a corvid cf. the etymology of corbel entry 1. Italian cornice has also been seen as an outcome of Greek korōnid-, korōnís "crook-beaked, curved, curved pen stroke, copestone (in the lexicographer Hesychius)," though phonologically this is implausible. The base *kor-/*ḱor- is ultimately onomatopoeic, perhaps an expansion of *kr-, the initial of other independently derived Indo-European words for corvid birds (cf. crow entry 1, raven entry 1).

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