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Definition

a decorative border along the top of a building's exterior wall

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a decorative molding between the ceiling and the top of a wall

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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

cornices = hardened snow that hangs over a ridge or precipice

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

cornices = decorative borders along the top of building walls

...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

cornice = a decorative molding between the ceiling and the top of a wall

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

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