Both Uses
cornice
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- Its shining walls rose against April sky to a simple cornice like a streak of white fire.†
Chpt 1 *
- He walked through the February city, where trucks flung up a spattering of slush and the sky was dark above dark brick cornices.†
Chpt 19
Definitions:
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(1)
(cornice as in: a decorative 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 -
(2)
(cornice as in: snow cornice) hardened wind-built snow that hangs over a ridge or precipice
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)