单词 | roundel moulding |
释义 | > as lemmasroundel moulding a. Architecture. In early use: a small moulded ball or globe used as decoration. Later (more fully roundel moulding): a type of moulding featuring these; (also) a convex horizontal moulding of which the section is (more or less) a semicircle. Cf. bead n. 5, astragal n. 2a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > convex moulding roundel1535 ovoloa1652 quarter-round1664 round1673 baguette1728 half-round1842 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Chron. iv. 12 The two pilers with the roundels and knoppes aboue vpon both the pilers. 1597 G. Fletcher Policy Turkish Empire xxii. f.63 They come to touch euery one of those Beads or roundels after other. 1609 Bible (Douay) I. 1 Kings vi. 18 Al the house was couered within with ceder, hauing roundels. 1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation xvi. 158 Beneath the Capital is the Roundel, or Astragal, and the Collar, which makes part of the Trunk of the Column, not of the Capital. 1753 T. Richards Antiquæ Linguæ Britannicæ Thes. Yspûr, the square of a pillar below, the roundel of a pillar. 1824 J. Elmes Gen. Dict. Fine Arts at Capital The roundel or bead moulding, which is a semicircle. 1864 C. E. Davis Anc. Landmarks Bath 45 Fragments of an early English roundel moulding, a decorated roll moulding, and a portion of late decorated tracery were also discovered. 1909 A. Marquand Greek Archit. ii. 105 The taenia moulding occasionally appears in a modified form..where it has a roundel moulding imbedded in it. 1962 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 66 252/2 A wooden column..consisting of..a roundel covering the base, and a small part of a fluted, Ionian shaft. 2008 N. Davies & E. Jokiniemi Dict. Archit. & Building Constr. 322/2 Roundel, any straight decorative moulding which is half a circle or more in cross-section; an astragal, roll moulding, bead moulding. < as lemmas |
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