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Definition
a decorative border along the top of a building's exterior wallor:
a decorative molding between the ceiling and the top of a wall
or:
hardened snow that hangs over a ridge or precipice
- It is inscribed on the school building's cornice.
- adobe-colored concrete trimmed with a red brick cornice
- decided to scale his building to the proportions of the square's older Georgian buildings, conform to surrounding heights and match cornice lines
- Cornices as airy as meringue jutted over voids a mile deep.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan, I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs, and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby
- ...found themselves blinking in the light of an enormous room, where lamps glowed and a fire roared on the hearth and both were reflected from the gilding of roof and cornice.C.S. Lewis -- The Silver Chair
- Upon the cornice of the tower a tall staff was fixed.Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- A gray bird flew above them, above the electric wires for the streetcar line, and perched on the metal cornice of a roof.James Baldwin -- Go Tell It on the Mountain
- A single billboard, mounted on the cornice of the building across the alley, dominates the view; its surface gleams three yards beyond the glass.Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
- Then down out of the sky he drops to a cornice beam with mortal voice telling me not to weep.Homer -- The Odyssey
- And a flock of pigeons parading rather dismally along the cornices and gutters of the upper floor and roof of the ancient court.Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
- Bullets which had rebounded from the cornices of the houses penetrated the barricade and wounded several men.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- Although they were still at work on the cornices outside and were painting on the ground floor, upstairs almost all the rooms were finished.Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
- As he took off with a hissing roar, he clattered against a thirtieth story cornice and nearly capsized.Alfred Bester -- The Demolished Man
- Roguish fauns and naked nymphs peeked down at Billy from festooned cornices.Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five
- Though part of him wanted to stand outside in the rain and stare up at the eaves and cornices, he rushed into the house with Lindsey.Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones
- Her building has a crumbling stoop, a terra cotta—colored facade with a gaudy green cornice.Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake
- On the cornice of the wardrobe, the hand of an amateur had painted this inscription: "Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes."E.M. Forster -- A Room With A View
- It acted as buttress and dam for a cornice of blue ice that groaned and split under the wind, loosing jagged slabs that shattered on the granite below.Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
- The walls were ornamented with the choicest specimens of French paper, enriched with a gilded cornice of elegant design.Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby
cornices = hardened snow that hangs over a ridge or precipice
cornices = decorative borders along the top of building walls
cornice = a decorative molding between the ceiling and the top of a wall
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