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‖ voluta Arch. Obs.|vəˈljuːtə|
[L. volūta scroll, properly fem. of volūtus, pa. pple. of volvĕre to turn. In later use also from It. voluta (Sp. and Pg. voluta), of the same origin.]
= volute n. 1.
1563Shute Archit. D ij, The Abacus, that lieth vpon Voluta, is..flat like to a trencher. 1598R. Haydocke tr. Lomazzo i. 93, 9 partes and an halfe: whereof one and an halfe makes abacus, and the other 8 downwards make voluta or the scrowle M. 1624Wotton Archit. in Reliq. (1651) 231 The Capitall dressed on each side, not much unlike womens Wires, in a spirall wreathing, which they call the Ionian Voluta. 1664Evelyn tr. Freart's Archit. 128 The Voluta, or as we tearm it properly enough, the Scroul,..is the principal, and only appropriate member of the Ionic Capitel in imitation of a femal Ornament. 1711W. Sutherland Shipbuild. Assist. 6 Cupolo's, Pilasters, Voluta's, Columns in several noble Structures. 1715Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) I. 19 The hollow..of the Voluta is even with the body of the Column. 1753Hogarth Anal. Beauty ii. 17 The scroll or voluta, gradually lessening to its center.
transf.1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus iii. 57 In the parts thereof [sc. of plants] we finde Heliacall or spirall roundles, voluta's, conical sections,..and frustrums of Archimedes. |