Architecture. Each of the four principal stalks which support the volutes and helices in a Corinthian capital.
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| 释义 | society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > capital > parts of specific types of capital (23) caulis1563 Architecture. Each of the four principal stalks which support the volutes and helices in a Corinthian capital. helix1563 Architecture, etc. A spiral ornament, a volute; spec. applied to the eight smaller volutes under the abacus of the Corinthian capital. vase1563 Architecture. = bell, n.1 6a. Obsolete. voluta1563 = volute, n. 1. cyllerie1592 Drapery forming a canopy. codd1601 Architecture. Each of the stalks which support the volutes and helices in a Corinthian capital; = caulis, n. 1. cilery1611 ‘The drapery or foliage carved on the heads of columns.’ roll1611 Architecture. A curl or volute, as used on Ionic or Corinthian capitals; a cylindrical moulding with a semicircular or three-quarter-circular… turning1631 The action of bending or folding over, or condition of being folded over; a part of something folded over, a fold; in quot. 1660, a curl, a volute. pillow1664 A block or bearing. Architecture. A moulding set between the abacus and echinus in the capital of a column; esp. a volute in an Ionic capital. Also… volute1696 Architecture. A spiral scroll forming the chief ornament of the Ionic capital and employed also in those of the Corinthian and Composite orders. tambour1706 Architecture. The core of a Corinthian or Composite capital. collarino1715 The cylindrical part of the capital in the Tuscan, the Roman Doric, and the Ionic of the Erechtheum. annulet1728 Archit. A small fillet encircling a column. Usually applied to the three, four, or five fillets under the echinus. colarin1728 = collarino, n. drum1728 Architecture. The body of the capital of a column in the Corinthian or Composite orders; = bell, n.1 6a. caulicoles1815 plural. ‘The eight lesser branches or stalks in the Corinthian capital springing out from the four greater or principal caules or stalks’ (Gwilt). intervolute1831 The space between the volutes or scrolls in Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite capitals. bolster1842 Architecture. One of the rolls forming the sides of an Ionic capital; = baluster, n. 5. stalk1842 Architecture. (See quot. 1842.) horn1847 Architecture †In Old English: a pinnacle or gable (obsolete); each of the Ionic volutes (likened to ram's horns); the projections of an abacus… bell1848 Any object or portion of an object shaped like a bell; esp. in various technical uses. Architecture. ‘The naked vase or corbeille of the… cauliculusa1878 in Botany = caulicle, n., caulicule, n.; in Architecture = caulicole, n. |
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