egg-and-dart

Georgia sneaked past the dog and whistled as she took in the Bordeaux-colored walls, egg-and-dart moldings, and cast plaster medallions on the ceiling.

Georgia’s Kitchen Jenny Nelson 2010

While the Lucas and Spielberg Buildings 'deep eaves, tile roofs, belvedere and spacious courtyard hearken back to the vernacular manor houses of Tuscany, there's an unwieldy overlay, with classical egg-and-dart moldings mixing it up with pink, spiral-shafted Romanesque colonettes and Prairie Style-like window muntins.

What George Lucas Wrought 2010

Between the roof and the friezes, and below them, panels are trimmed in vine leaves, Greek labyrinths and egg-and-dart motifs.

Who’s in the Alexander Sarcophagus? 2009

In any case, several egg-and-dart fragments from Ionic capitals or other architectural elements are early Imperial in date.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - N-S Colonnaded Street Report 3 2003

Cornices of beds and cabinets often had the egg-and-dart molding used on them, and the S-curve is often seen opposed on the backs of settees and chairs.

Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today Lucy Abbot Throop

You see the great square chimney; the tiny window-panes, six to a sash, some of them turned by time, not into the purple of Beacon Hill but into a kind of prismatic sheen like oil on water; the bit of classic egg-and-dart border on the door-cap; the aged texture of the weathered clapboard; the graceful arch of the wide woodshed entrance, on the kitchen side; the giant elm rising far above the roof.

Penguin Persons & Peppermints Walter Prichard Eaton 1917

Many ornamental motives, like the zigzag and the egg-and-dart, for example, had originally a symbolic value.

The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life Carleton Eldredge Noyes 1911

He first sets a good strong architectural moulding of classic egg-and-dart, and leaf, and into this able motive thrusts hooks and rings.

The Tapestry Book Helen Churchill Hungerford Candee 1905

It is a pattern, like the egg-and-dart ornament or the Greek key.

Alarms and Discursions 1905

This design is none other than the so-called "egg-and-dart" pattern of Greek architecture.

Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers 1891