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单词 cornice
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cornicen.

Brit. /ˈkɔːnɪs/, U.S. /ˈkɔrnɪs/
Forms: 1500s– cornice, 1600s cornishe, corniche ( coronix), 1500s–1700s coronice, 1500s coronich ( cornix), 1500s–1800s cornish.
Etymology: The forms cornice, cornishe, were taken immediately from French and Italian equivalents: compare 16th cent. French cornice, cornise, in Cotgrave cornice, corniche ‘the cornish or brow of a piller or wall’, modern French corniche; < Italian cornice/korˈnitʃe/ ‘the ledge whereon they hang tapistrie in any roome; also an out-jetting peece or part of a house or wall’ (Florio); cornice represents the Italian spelling; French corniche, English cornish derive < Italian pronunciation. The variants coronix, coronice, are based on 16–17th cent. latinized forms. Italian cornice, the source of the word in all the modern languages, is known from the beginning of Italian literature, being frequent in Dante. In form it is identical with cornice < Latin cornix, -īcem crow (Corvus Cornix), and by Florio it is treated as the same word; in the Vocabolario della Crusca the two are separated. The Latin term for the architectural cornice was corōna (Vitruvius), and some have conjectured that the Italian cornice is in some way derived or corrupted from that word, the form coronix cited by Du Cange, and used in English by Shute in 1563, being assumed to be a connecting link. But there is no evidence for Latin coronix before 16th cent. Du Cange's example is of 1643, his example of cornix of 1605; both appear to be merely latinized forms of the Italian word, coronix being contaminated by the desire to connect it with corōna. Another suggestion is that the Italian cornice was in some way related to Latin corōnis, -idem = Greek κορωνίς, given in Hesychius in the sense τὸ τελευταῖον τῆς οἰκοδομῆς ἐπίθεμα ‘the finishing piece placed on the building’, the ‘copestone’. But this could not have phonetically given Italian cornice, unless indeed the Greek word had passed into popular Italian use, and been assimilated by popular perversion to cornice crow. Of this we have no evidence.
1. Architecture.
a. A horizontal moulded projection which crowns or finishes a building or some part of a building; spec. the uppermost member of the entablature of an order surmounting the frieze.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > cornice
cornice1563
cornicing1677
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > entablature > cornice
cornice1563
cornicement1637
1563 J. Shute First Groundes Archit. sig. Ciiv The Coronix of the Pedestalle.
1563 J. Shute First Groundes Archit. sig. Divv The Architraue, frise, & Cornishe.
?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 69 Columns..that supported a cumly Cornish.
1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 22 They [pillars] have all their..upper Adjuncts, as Architrave, Frize, and Cornice.
1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso 277 Augustus raised up the walls thereof even to the highest Cornish.
1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 12 Cornishes and Frontispieces over the Windows.
1681 C. Cotton Poet. Wks. (1765) 329 With all its Mouldings, Frize and Coronice.
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 97 a Let there be Cornices of Stone..projecting out a cubit.
1833 Act 3 & 4 William IV c. 46 §114 The water from the roofs and cornices of all houses or other buildings.
1846 E. Bulwer-Lytton Lucretia I. i. ii. 95 The same enriched frieze and cornice.
b. An ornamental moulding, usually of plaster, running round the wall of a room or other part of the interior of a building, immediately below the ceiling; the uppermost moulding of a piece of wainscoting; a picture-moulding, or the like; also, the ornamental projection within which curtains are hung.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > projecting moulding(s)
tablementa1400
tabling1410
projecture1563
rib1608
watering table1609
tableting1610
ledge1611
quarter-round1664
cornice1670
bolection1708
dress1726
tablet?1756
dressing1789
1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) i. 119 Ouer which runns a cornish of syluer plat nayled to the wall.
1774 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 326 The gilding of the cornish..was quite blackened.
1800 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 13 18 The cornish of the wainscotting.
1858 C. Dickens Let. 28 Aug. (1995) VIII. 641 A great piece of the cornice of the ceiling falling with a great crash.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Cornice..a gilded or other ornamental work within which window curtains are suspended.
2. A ring or moulding encircling a cannon (Italian cornice degli orecchioni, Florio; see also cornice-ring n. at Compounds).
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > raised band on cannon > near mouth
cornice1591
cornice-ring1645
astragal1656
frieze1692
1591 T. Digges L. Digges's Geom. Pract. Treatize: Pantometria (rev. ed.) 178 The Excesse wherby the Semidiameter of the Ringe or Cornice of the Head dooth exceed the Cornice of the Coyle [of a cannon].
1645 N. Stone Enchiridion of Fortification 57 The mussell-Ring or Coronice.
3.
a. Applied to a path or road along the edge of a precipice; = corniche n. (Not an English sense.)
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1823 J. Galt Entail III. xvi. 153 The road..lay on the cornice of a precipice.
1824 J. Galt Rothelan III. 250 The road towards it is a cornice, as the Sicilians..call the paths which wind along the edge of precipices.
b. An overhanging accumulation of ice and wind-blown snow at the edge of a ridge or cliff-face.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > land ice > [noun] > overhanging accumulation on ridge or cliff-face
cornice1871
1871 J. Tyndall Hours of Exercise in Alps i. 13 The view was bounded by a massive cornice, from which the avalanches are periodically let loose.
1953 J. Hunt Ascent of Everest v. xv. 191 Huge bulges of snow hung over it from the crest of the ridge, cornices of Himalayan dimensions formed by the prevailing westerly wind.

Compounds

cornice-hook n. a hook for hanging pictures from a picture-cornice.
cornice-piece n. a piece of moulding forming a cornice.
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1794 W. Felton Treat. Carriages I. 31 This [the front roof-rail], with the door case rails, has cornice pieces nailed on.
cornice-plane n. an ogee plane for planing mouldings.
cornice-pole n. a pole carrying rings from which curtains are hung.
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1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 298/2 Cornice poles..coated with thin brass.
cornice-rail n. (see quot.).
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1795 W. Felton Treat. Carriages II. (Gloss.) 216 Cornice Rails, the top framing of the body of a coach or chariot, called roof rails.
cornice-ring n. the ring or moulding encircling a cannon immediately behind the muzzle-ring; = astragal n. 3.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > raised band on cannon > near mouth
cornice1591
cornice-ring1645
astragal1656
frieze1692
1645 N. Stone Enchiridion of Fortification 56 The Astragall, or Coronice ring.
1692 Smith's Sea-mans Gram. (new ed.) ii. vi. 94 The Astragal, or Cornice Ring.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. at Ordnance Cornish Ring of a Gun, is the next from the Muzzle Ring backwards.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Cornice Cornice Ring, of a Piece of Ordinance, is that which lies next the Trunnion Ring.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

cornicev.

Brit. /ˈkɔːnɪs/, U.S. /ˈkɔrnɪs/
Forms: Also cornish.
Etymology: < cornice n.
transitive. To furnish with a cornice; figurative to crown or finish as with a cornice.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [verb (transitive)] > furnish with cornice
cornice1744
1744 E. Haywood Female Spectator (1748) I. 123 Twelve marble-pillars..carved and cornished after the Doric and Ionic manner.
1803 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 1 431 The whole work..stretched into a hundred volumes..would cornish the literary wainscotting of a five-and-twenty foot room.
1872 J. S. Blackie Lays of Highlands 131 A goodly temple, walled behind With crag precipitous..And by green birches corniced.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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