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CORNICE (Fr. corniche, Ital. cornice)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 173 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CORNICE (Fr. corniche, Ital. cornice)  , in See also:architecture, the See also:projection at the See also:top of a See also:wall, which is provided to throw off the See also:rain See also:water from the roof, beyond the See also:face of the See also:building . As employed in classic architecture it forms the upper See also:part of the See also:entablature of an See also:order, and is there subdivided into See also:bed See also:mould, See also:corona and cymatium . The See also:term is also generally applied to any moulding projection which crowns the feature to which it is attached; thus doors and windows, internally as well as externally, have each their See also:cornice, and the same applies to pieces of See also:furniture (see also See also:MASONRY) .

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