FromMiddle Frenchcorniche orItaliancornice, fromLatincornīx(“crow”).[1]
cornice (pluralcornices)
- (architecture) Ahorizontal architectural element of abuilding, projecting forward from the mainwalls, originally used as a means of directingrainwater away from the building's walls.
1920, Frank Cousins, Phil M. Riley,The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia[1], Boston: Little, Brown, and Company:It is a large square structure, two and a half stories in height, with a hipped roof rising above a handsomecornice with prominent modillions and surmounted by a balustraded belvedere.
- (architecture) Adecorative element applied at the topmost part of the wall of aroom, as with acrown molding.
1834,L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, inFrancesca Carrara. […], volume III, London:Richard Bentley, […], (successor toHenry Colburn),→OCLC,page113:That ceiling was covered with square compartments,[...] It was supported by a gildedcornice, carved into a thousand curious shapes and emblems, among which the horned wolf, the crest of the Avonleigh family, was conspicuous.
1963,Margery Allingham, chapter 1, inThe China Governess: A Mystery, London:Chatto & Windus,→OCLC:The half-dozen pieces[…] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids.[…] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards thecornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.
- (furniture) A decorative element at the topmost portion of certain pieces offurniture, as with ahighboy.
- (geography, mountaineering) Anoverhanging edge ofsnow on aridge or thecrest of amountain and along the sides ofgullies.
- Synonym:snow cornice
1999, Harish Kapadia, “Ascents in the Panch Chuli Group”, inAcross Peaks & Passes in Kumaun Himalaya, New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company,→ISBN, page136:Looking to the east we could see Api and the mountains of west Nepal, shapely snow peaks in the distance, while in the immediate foreground, much lower but still dramatic, were the peaks of Panch Chuli IV and V (III was hidden by the lip of a hugecornice), Telkot and Nagling, all of them unclimbed, all steep and challenging.
horizontal architectural element
- Belarusian:карні́з m(karníz),гзымс m(hzyms)
- Bulgarian:корни́з (bg) m(korníz)
- Catalan:cornisa (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:壁帶 /壁带 (zh)(bìdài)
- Czech:římsa f(architecture),ozdobná lišta(furniture, ceiling)
- Dutch:kroonlijst (nl) f,deklijst f
- Esperanto:kornico
- Finnish:korniisi (fi)
- French:corniche (fr) f
- Galician:cornixa (gl) f
- German:Gesims (de) n,Sims (de) m,Kranzgesims n,Kranz (de) m,Mauerbrüstung f,Brüstung (de) f,Gardinenstange (de) f,Randleiste f
- Greek:κορωνίδα (el) f(koronída)
- Ancient:θριγκός m(thrinkós),γεῖσον n(geîson)
- Irish:coirnis f
- Italian:cornice (it),cornicione (it) m
- Japanese:コーニス(kōnisu)
- Macedonian:ко́рниз m(kórniz)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:gesims m
- Nynorsk:gesims m
- Ottoman Turkish:قورنیزه(korniza)
- Persian:قرنیز (fa)(qarniz)
- Polish:gzyms (pl) m
- Portuguese:cornija (pt) f
- Russian:карни́з (ru) m(karníz)
- Serbo-Croatian:venac (sh) m
- Slovak:rímsa f
- Spanish:cornisa (es) f
- Swedish:kornisch (sv) c,taklist (sv) c
- Tagalog:kornisa
- Turkish:korniş (tr)
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decorative element at top of room
decorative element on furniture
cornice (third-person singular simple presentcornices,present participlecornicing,simple past and past participlecorniced)
- (transitive) Tofurnish ordecorate with acornice.
FromLatincornīx(“crow”), influenced byAncient Greekκορωνίς(korōnís,“curved line”) from the same root.[1]
- IPA(key): /korˈni.t͡ʃe/
- Rhymes:-itʃe
- Hyphenation:cor‧nì‧ce
cornice f (pluralcornici)
- (poetic, obsolete)carrion crow
- Synonym:cornacchia
- frame
- (architecture)cornice
- Synonym:cornicione
- ledge
- (figurative)background,setting
- ^cornice in Treccani.it –Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
cōrnīce
- ablativesingular ofcōrnīx
cornice f (pluralcornice)
- alternative form ofcornișă
