Cornice

Definition: Cornice

Cornice

Noun

1. A decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing.

2. A molding at the corner between the ceiling and the top of a wall.

3. The topmost projecting part of an entablature.

Verb

1. Furnish with a cornice, as in architecture.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cornice" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Building

Building & Civil Engineering

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Cornice

Summit

Architrave, frieze, cornice, coping stone, zoophorus, capital, epistyle, sconce, pediment, entablature; tympanum; ceiling; (covering).

Crosswords: Cornice

Italian (cornice, frame, ledge, molding, moulding, picture frame).

La Moglie nella cornice (1991)

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Books

• Di láa dalle rovine : i temi della rinascita nella cornice politica ed istituzionale del Mezzogiorno (reference)

• Five Frames for the Decameron: Communications and Social Systems in the Cornice (reference)

• Il frammento e la cornice : osservazioni sul museo (reference)

• Oltre la cornice : 27 itinerari nell'arte italiana (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Interior, detail of south wall. Photograph by Jack E. Boucher, August 1970. (Reproduction Number: HABS TENN,19-NASH,13-7) The interior columns, moldings, and illusionistic fresco ornament shown here along the south wall of Nashville's First Presbyterian Church are in the Egyptian Revival style, an exotic style of architecture that became popular in the first half of the nineteenth century following Napoleon's conquests. The Egyptian Revival style is noted for its lotus-leaf-inspired capitals, bulging columns, and Egyptian gorges, the dramatically curved cornice topping many Egyptian buildings. Begun in 1849 by William Strickland, the architect of the Tennessee State Capitol, this is the largest and best-preserved Egyptian Revival church in the United States. Credit: Library of Congress.

Rodin Studios, New York, N.Y.; column, capital, entablature, and cornice details. Credit: Library of Congress.

Versailles chateau, Versailles, France. Cornice details. Credit: Library of Congress.

Church of the Epiphany (1684-93), north facade, ceramic cornice and decorative tiles, Yaroslavl', Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.

United States Treasury Building. Anteroom to Secretary of the Treasury's office. Cornice. Elevations, sections, and details. Credit: Library of Congress.

Waterfront, Point Farm. Cornice of brick structure with gutter. Credit: Library of Congress.

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The mason who finishes the cornice of the palace returns at night perchance to a hut not so good as a wigwam.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "cornice": cornice brake ♦ Cornice ring. Additional references.

Albanian

kornizë (case, casing, frame, Mount, mounting, picture frame, rack, sash, stretcher). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كورنيش (ridge), ‏طنف (eaves, frieze), ‏إفريز (eaves, frieze, marquee). (various references)

Bulgarian 

корниз (coping, drip-moulding, dripstone, eaves, label, ledge, molding, moulding, perch, trim), надвиснала снежна маса. (various references)

Czech

snìhový převis, římsa (ledge, moulding). (various references)

Danish

skyggeliste (special profiled corner moulding), overhæng (overhang), gesims. (various references)

Dutch

overhang (overhang), kroonlijst, gootlijst (eaves fascia, fascia, fascia board), gootbekleding, daklijst (special profiled corner moulding). (various references)

Farsi 

کتیبه (Coping, Epigraph, Inscription), قرنیس , گچ بری بالای دیوارزیرسقف . (various references)

Finnish

ulkonema (projecting part, projection), kieleke (projecting rock, projection), kattolista (special profiled corner moulding). (various references)

French

corniche (special profiled corner moulding). (various references)

German

wächte, Gesims (shelf). (various references)

Greek 

κορνίζα θριγκός (special profiled corner moulding), κορνίζα (frame, pelmet), κορωνίσ (crest), κορωνίς (special profiled corner moulding, vignette), γείσο (eaves, molding, moulding), προβαλλόμενο τμήμα (overhang). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעט�" של�' בראש צוק. (various references)

Hungarian

párkánykoszorú, mennyezetpárkány, karnis (pelmet, valance). (various references)

Italian

cornicione (eaves, molding, moulding), cornice (frame, ledge, molding, moulding, picture frame). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

蛇腹 (bellows, ceiling molding, design of parallel lines). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

まわりぶち, まわりえ�", じゃばら (bellows, ceiling molding, design of parallel lines). (various references)

Manx

corneesh. (various references)

Pig Latin

ornicecay

Portuguese

cornija (eave, mantel, mantelpiece). (various references)

Romanian

cornişã (perch). (various references)

Russian 

карниз (eaves, perch). (various references)

Scottish

barramhaise (a cornice). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

krovni venac, karniž. (various references)

Spanish

cornisa (overhang, special profiled corner moulding). (various references)

Swedish

taklist, skugglist (special profiled corner moulding), kranslist, kornisch (pelmet), gesims (ledge, moulding), överhäng (overhang, track kerning). (various references)

Turkish

uçurumun kenarındaki sert kar kütlesi, pervaz (cincture, cyma, dressing, fringe, jamb, molding, moulding, reveal, rib, ribbon, shelf, sill, Wale, wheal), korniş (curnice-pole, molding, moulding). (various references)

Ukrainian

карниз (eaves, ledge, perch). (various references)

Vietnamese 

mái đua khối tuyết cứng trên miệng vực thẳm. (various references)

koronis. (various references)

coronis. (various references)

corniche. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "cornice": corniced, cornices. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cornice" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Capranica, carnic, carnica, carnice, Carnick, carnifex, Cerknica, Cernac, cernach, Chojnice, cirvice, Conrie, conrnice, consice, coric, cormice, cornace, corniche, cornide, Corniea, cornince, cornishe, cornnice, cornye, cornyshe, cortico, crnic, cronic, cronicle, Curnock, Gornik, hornick, Korenica, Korniev, Kornik. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: crocein, crocine.

-1 letter: cicero, coiner, orcein, recoin.

-2 letters: cerci, ceric, conic, croci, crone, irone, nicer, orcin, recon.

-3 letters: cero, cine, cion, cire, coin, coir, cone, coni, core, corn, croc, icon, inro, iron, nice, noir, nori, once, rein, rice.

-4 letters: con, cor, eon, ern, ice, ion, ire, nor, one, orc, ore, rec, rei, rin, roc, roe.

-5 letters: en, er.

+1 letter: cicerone, ciceroni, cocinera, coercing, coercion, concerti, conciser, coprince, corniced, cornices, corniche, cornicle, croceine, croceins, enchoric, necrotic.

+2 letters: accretion, anorectic, arccosine, chronicle, cicerones, cocineras, cockering, coercions, conceiver, concierge, conscribe, convincer, coprinces, corniches, cornicles, croceines, cryogenic, incorrect, recocking, reconcile, reconvict.

+3 letters: accretions, anorectics, arccosines, carcinogen, cariogenic, chronicled, chronicler, chronicles, cochairmen, cocreating, coerecting, commercing, conceivers, concentric, concerning, concertina, concerting, concertini, concertino, concertize, concierges, concreting, concretion, concretism, concretist, concretize, congeneric, conscribed, conscribes, convincers, cornetcies, correcting, correction, covariance, crocheting, cryogenics, disconcert, egocentric, electronic, geocentric, microcline, reconceive, reconciled, reconciler, reconciles, reconvicts, reconvince, uncoercive.