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Architectural spiral
Answer for the clue "Architectural spiral ", 6 letters:
volute
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The term volute is used for spiral or scroll forms in a number of different contexts, all of which derive from and allude to the original Latin root word voluta ("scroll"): In architecture , a volute is a decorative element, in particular on the capitals ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center [syn: spiral ] a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; "a coil of rope" [syn: coil , spiral , whorl , ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Volute \Vo*lute"\, n. [F. volute (cf. It. voluta), L. voluta, from volvere, volutum, to roll. See Voluble .] (Arch.) A spiral scroll which forms the chief feature of the Ionic capital, and which, on a much smaller scale, is a feature in the Corinthian and ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context architecture English) The spiral curve on an Ionic capital. 2 (context zoology English) The spirls or whorls on a gastropod's shell. 3 (context zoology English) Any marine gastropod of the family ''(taxlink Volutidae family noshow=1)''.
Usage examples of volute.
The lofty walls--gigantic in height--even unproportionably so, were hung from summit to foot, in vast folds, with a heavy and massive looking tapestry--tapestry of a material which was found alike as a carpet on the floor, as a covering for the ottomans and the ebony bed, as a canopy for the bed, and as the gorgeous volutes of the curtains which partially shaded the window.
Luxembourg Gardens for an hour after that, watching the toy sailboats on the pond, mentally unspooling a volute from the half-circle of the flower bed.
Below them she could see the tireless Rillyti laboring over tasks which ranged from the hoisting of mammoth blocks of stone to the painstaking reengraving of a delicately carved helix or volute.
Now these were the shelliest kids along the seashore that summer and they should all have known a Volute from a Cone, all except little Oliver.
A new implement stood voluted beside the genuine Renaissance writing desk supporting Weininger's always open standard work: the tailor's horse, the tailor's organ, the tailor's confessional: a Singer sewing machine.
The electricians had contrived a catchment pool and a wheel in the torrent close at handfor the little Mulhausen dynamo with its turbinal volute used by the telegraphists was quite adaptable to water driving, and on the sixth day in the evening the apparatus was in working order and the Prince was callingweakly, indeed, but callingto his air-fleet across the empty spaces of the world.
It offered so many columns, pediments, friezes, tripods, gladiators, urns and volutes that it looked as if it had not been built of white marble, but squeezed out of a pastry tube.