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n., pl., -li (-lī').
A rounded convex molding, often a quarter section of a circle or ellipse.
[Obsolete Italian, diminutive of uovo, ovo, egg, from Latin ōvum.]
A convex molding, less than a semicircle in profile; usually a quarter of a circle or approximately a quarter-ellipse in profile.
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Ovulo molding and resulting shadow pattern
Ovolo (or ovulo) in architecture, is a convex molding known also as the echinus, which in Classical architecture was invariably carved with the egg-and-dart ornament. The molding is called a quarter-round by woodworkers. Not to be confounded with the "echinus" of the Dorian capital, as this was of a more varied form and of much larger dimensions than the ovolo, which was only a subordinate molding.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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