cavetton.
Architecture.
‘A hollowed moulding, whose profile is the quadrant of a circle. It is principally used in cornices’ (Gwilt Encycl. Archit.).
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1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 29 We will describe a Cavetto.
1815 T. Rickman in J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 174 The bedmould should consist of an ovolo fillet and cavetto.
1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. iii. i. 684 The cavetto, mouth, or hollow..is chiefly used as a crowning moulding... By workmen it is frequently called a casement.
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