CORNICE (Fr. corniche, Ital. cornice)  , in architecture, the projection at the top of a wall, which is provided to throw off the rain water from the roof, beyond the face of the building . As employed in classic architecture it forms the upper part of the entablature of an order, and is there subdivided into bed mould, corona and cymatium . The 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 cornice, and the same applies to pieces of furniture (see also MASONRY) .