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Volute

adjective
1.
In the shape of a coil.  Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, turbinate, voluted, whorled.



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"Volute" Quotes from Famous Books



... the same arrangement in those light structures which we have classed as belonging to the architecture of the tent (Figs. 70 and 72). The origin of the forms employed in stone buildings is most clearly shewn by the frequent occurrence of the volute, a curvilinear element suggested by the use and peculiar ...
— A History of Art in Chaldaea & Assyria, v. 1 • Georges Perrot


Words linked to "Volute" :   construction, hank, ornament, volute spring, ornamentation, coil, structure, coiled, decoration


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