Both Uses of
cornice
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- …licensed fo the sale of beer, wine and spirits for consumption on the premises, the celebrant blessed the house and censed the mullioned windows and the groynes and the vaults and the arrises and the capitals and the pediments and the cornices and the engrailed arches and the spires and the cupolas and sprinkled the lintels thereof with blessed water and prayed that God might bless that house as he had blessed the house of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and make the angels of His…†
Chpt 12
- Boys from High school are perched on the lampposts, telegraph poles, windowsills, cornices, gutters, chimneypots, railings, rainspouts, whistling and cheering the pillar of the cloud appears.†
Chpt 15 *
Definition:
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(cornice) a decorative border along the top of a building's exterior wall
or:
a decorative molding between the ceiling and the top of a wall
or:
hardened snow that hangs over a ridge or precipice