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Meaning of "volutes"

Spiral-shaped shells found in certain marine mollusks or the decorative spiral ornaments resembling these shells
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The distinctive volutes have been described in many ways.
The entrance opening is decorated with flower volutes stuccoes.
The spirals of the volutes are connected by a small laurel wreath.
Ionian columns with volutes.
The space between the volutes is decorated with oves.
Simple and regular volutes.
Intricate arabesque elements and volutes can be seen underneath the span arch.
The side sections are linked to the central one by sinuous volutes.
There are suspended sand volutes around the landing site.
The use of volutes requires fabrication methods that are complex and therefore expensive.
Republican cartridges and volutes still adoring this façade.
Volutes are predators that live in deep waters where they stalk and kill other molluscs.
His creations give rise to volutes of exclamations more laudatory than the others.
The Ionic capital is characterized by the use of volutes.
Columns, volutes and architraves can clearly be seen.

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It has two rows of Corinthian pilasters that are connected with volutes.
Volutes do not have a free-swimming larval stage.
The Ionic order is best recognized by its capital with volutes.
Volutes may be right or left-handed depending on which.
Ornaments and Volutes.
Around us, volutes of smoke escape from behind the rocks.
In facade decoration are also used volutes and obelisk-shaped pinnacles.
The load-bearing columns placed underneath the arches have inverted volutes.
Three-dimensional volutes are on each side of the lower flight.
In the piers of the first floor there are two ionic half-columns with volutes.
In one embodiment the upper and lower volutes are adapted to be snap-fitted together.
Above it is a smooth pediment, some cornices and an open tympanum ending with two volutes.
The facade consists of two overlapping sections, connected by volutes which terminate in low pinnacles.
The troughs or volutes channel the liquid, decelerate the same, and dissipate its energy.
An oval cylinder encases the dome, and large volutes transfer the lateral thrust.
The upper part of the façade ( gable ) is flanked by elaborate volutes.
The use of stucco decoration, in this case for the volutes of the composite capitals.
A defining pair of volutes ( scroll-shaped ornaments ) decorates the capital.
Its shell-shaped, golden back has a shield flanked by two volutes on its upper side.
Warman Volutes Liners - manufacturer, factory, supplier from China.
Well stuck in your club chair, the volutes of the Cuba.
The capitals in like manner differ, some scalloped, others have water-leaves and volutes.
In fact, Ionic capitals have two volutes above a band of palm-leaf ornaments.
The incorporation of Dutch Renaissance motifs, notably gables with strapwork and volutes is also characteristic.
Shit… There are suspended sand volutes around the landing site. It can't be.
Dominating the facade are columns capped with Ionic capitals and scroll-like volutes on the pediment.
Moreover, the resiliency of the intermediate volutes 86 of the spring 74 provides additional accommodation.
Egg-and-Dart designs are often between the volutes.
Double volute pump, It has two volutes which are placed 180 degrees apart.
In the 18th century, a Neoclassical bell-tower was added, decorated with garlands, volutes and bucraniums.
Art Nouveau, with its stylised floral volutes had taken root.
A traditional 15th-century variant of the Composite capital turns the volutes inwards above stiffened leaf carving.

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