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Ogee
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(probably an English corruption of Fr. ogive, a diagonal groin rib, being a moulding commonly employed; equivalents in other languages are Lat. cyma-reversa, Ital. gola, Fr. cymaise, Ger. Kehlleisten), a term given in architecture to a moulding of a double curvature, convex and concave, in which the former is the uppermost (see Moulding). The name "ogee-arch" is often applied to an arch formed by the meeting of two contrasted ogees (see Arch) .
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Ogee'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/o/ogee.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Ogee'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/o/ogee.html. 1910.
