OVOLO (adapted from Ital. uovolo, diminutive of uovo, an

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• EGG (O.E. aeg, cf. Ger. Ei, Swed. aegg, and prob. Gr. u,ov, Lat. ovum)
• EGG, AUGUSTUS LEOPOLD (1816-1863)

egg; other

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• FOREIGN

foreign equivalents are Fr. ore, echine, quart de rond;

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• LAT

Lat.

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• ECHINUS (Gr. for " hedge-hog " or " sea-urchin ")

echinus)  , in architecture, a convex moulding known also as the echinus, which in Classic architecture was invariably carved with the egg and tongue . In Roman and Italian work the moulding is called by workmen a quarter round . It must not be confounded with the echinus of the Greek Doric capital, as this was of a more varied form and of much larger dimensions than the ovolo, which was only a subordinate moulding .