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Definition of ogee in English: ogeeadjective əʊˈdʒiːˈəʊdʒiːoʊˈdʒi Architecture Showing in section a double continuous S-shaped curve. Example sentencesExamples - It consists of a double bottom board to which a complex base molding and scrolled ogee feet are attached.
- From a high central half-round, the skirt descends along cyma or ogee curves to cusps that set off shallow arches with small half-rounds in the middle.
- The guttering on the house is highly distinctive, not the usual half-cylinder, but a very fancy affair with a sort of ogee profile, made so as to look like a pediment from ground level.
- During the late 1780s, Chapin's shop gradually shifted from cabriole-legged case furniture to forms with oxbow facades and ogee feet.
- Despite its late date, the conservative display of raised-panel doors, applied ogee moldings, and a scalloped opening to the display area are all borrowed from eighteenth-century design.
Synonyms meandering, zigzagging, snaking, snaky, winding, wiggly, squiggly, crooked, tacking, twisting, twisty, full of twists and turns, curving, curvy, wavy, deviating, undulating, sinuous, serpentine, tortuous, irregular
noun əʊˈdʒiːˈəʊdʒiːoʊˈdʒi Architecture An S-shaped line or moulding. Example sentencesExamples - The Pennsylvania versions sometimes have ogees or beads filed onto corners of the beard or at the base of the poll.
- The plane in the center cuts a fillet and small reverse ogee, the fillet sunk 5/16 inch below the surface.
- Only the fronts of the legs are decorated with a molding of opposed ogees separated by a bead interrupted by clusters of three carved balls.
- Of the 286 planes, the majority, were simple moldings like common ogees, astragals, beads, hollows and rounds.
- Of Near Eastern inspiration are the arabesques, ogees, scrolls, and flower heads outlined in raised gold paste.
Origin Late Middle English: apparently from ogive (with which it was originally synonymous). The current sense arose in the late 17th century. Definition of ogee in US English: ogeeadjectiveoʊˈdʒiōˈjē Architecture Having a double continuous S-shaped curve. Example sentencesExamples - The guttering on the house is highly distinctive, not the usual half-cylinder, but a very fancy affair with a sort of ogee profile, made so as to look like a pediment from ground level.
- Despite its late date, the conservative display of raised-panel doors, applied ogee moldings, and a scalloped opening to the display area are all borrowed from eighteenth-century design.
- From a high central half-round, the skirt descends along cyma or ogee curves to cusps that set off shallow arches with small half-rounds in the middle.
- During the late 1780s, Chapin's shop gradually shifted from cabriole-legged case furniture to forms with oxbow facades and ogee feet.
- It consists of a double bottom board to which a complex base molding and scrolled ogee feet are attached.
Synonyms meandering, zigzagging, snaking, snaky, winding, wiggly, squiggly, crooked, tacking, twisting, twisty, full of twists and turns, curving, curvy, wavy, deviating, undulating, sinuous, serpentine, tortuous, irregular
nounoʊˈdʒiōˈjē Architecture An S-shaped line or molding. Example sentencesExamples - Of the 286 planes, the majority, were simple moldings like common ogees, astragals, beads, hollows and rounds.
- Of Near Eastern inspiration are the arabesques, ogees, scrolls, and flower heads outlined in raised gold paste.
- The Pennsylvania versions sometimes have ogees or beads filed onto corners of the beard or at the base of the poll.
- The plane in the center cuts a fillet and small reverse ogee, the fillet sunk 5/16 inch below the surface.
- Only the fronts of the legs are decorated with a molding of opposed ogees separated by a bead interrupted by clusters of three carved balls.
Origin Late Middle English: apparently from ogive (with which it was originally synonymous). The current sense arose in the late 17th century. |