A cavetto molding, enriched with a bead and reel astragal and another drilled rope torus, outlines the dark marble facings about the fireplace opening.
They have Egyptian cavetto cornices and pyramidal roofs, like many Asiatic tombs.
The doors and windows had banded architraves or trims and cavetto cornices very Egyptian in character.
A terraced pyramid supported an altar or shrine to the southwest of the palace; at the west corner was a temple, the substructure of which was crowned by a cavetto cornice showing plainly the influence of Egyptian models.
It forms an astragal under the cavetto cornice and runs down the angles of the pylons and walls.
Gateways like those of the temples on a smaller scale, the cavetto cornice on the walls, and here and there a porch with carved columns of wood or stone, were the only details pretending to elegance.
Where they appeared externally they were crowned with a simple cavetto cornice, its curved surface covered with colored flutings alternating with cartouches of hieroglyphics.
Yet the Torcello base resembles these Gothic ones both in expansion beneath and in depth of cavetto above.
In the spaces between the shafts of the middle arch, but not of the others, are crockets for the whole height, and the innermost cavetto is entirely filled with dog-tooth ornament.
The ornamentation on the bosses of the roof, and in the cavetto below the windows, and round the great arches from the choir aisles, is very varied.
A bold but shallowcavetto or hollow cornice moulding is frequently carried along the wall just under the parapet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cavetto" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
