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Cyma   Listen
noun
Cyma  n.  
1.
(Arch.) A member or molding of the cornice, the profile of which is wavelike in form.
2.
(Bot.) A cyme. See Cyme.
Cyma recta (or Cyma), a cyma, hollow in its upper part and swelling below.
Cyma reversa, or Cyma Ogee, a cyma swelling out on the upper part and hollow below.





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"Cyma" Quotes from Famous Books



... architecture than the variety, the grace, and the beauty of the mouldings, generally in eccentric curves. The general outline of the moulding is a gracefully flowing cyma, or wave, concave at one end, and convex at the other, like an Italic f, the concavity and convexity being exactly in the same curve, according to the line ...
— The Old Roman World • John Lord


Words linked to "Cyma" :   cymatium, ogee, Greco-Roman architecture, moulding, cyma recta, molding, classical architecture, cyma reversa


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