What is "corniced"

Usage examples of "corniced".

To the right of Rasac’s snowy summit, and connected to it by a dangerously corniced ridge, I could see the slightly lower summit of Seria Norte.

From there the corniced ridge dipped down to a saddle before curving up in a huge sweep over two shoulders of rock to the final summit pyramid of Yerupaja.

The South Ridge ran from right to left up early rocky outcrops before forming a long and elegant corniced snow ridge which led to a highly unstable area of seracs that mushroomed to the summit.

I looked up to see where the ice was coming from and saw the corniced summit ridge far above me.

I saw snatches of frighteningly steep razor-edges through cloud gaps, and some dangerously corniced sections, the East Face dropping away to the right in a continuous flank of tortured flutings.

We would be unable to traverse below the corniced ridge at a safe distance.

Simon must have fallen through the corniced ridge, yet the volume of sound suggested something more like a serac avalanche.

Above was a wreath-work of blazonry, extending up to the carved and corniced oaken roof.

They were old apartment buildings of corniced stone, their lower windows embraced by iron grills.