Meaning of corvetto | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A curvet; a leap.
2. An Egyptian style of cornice, resembling the roof structure of a reed hut.

Examples

“You must draw⟳ the horse in his career with his manage⟳, and turn⟳, doing the corvetto, leaping &c..”

“but scarce had I drawn back mine arms, strained the outward flexure of my knee-joints, and was fixed in an apt disposure to take⟳ the corvetto primo and leap-valiant of the cour, when methought suddenly there came in and did appear⟳ before me mine ancient, most reverend and singular good friend, the rector of Saynt Andrew of S—, nearest in neighbourhood, but not of mine own⟳ cure, myself being of D— manor house in the same vicinage,—who astonished beyond measure⟳ at my so extasied gladness, demanded wherefore I did carry⟳ myself on this wise?”

“These all have⟳ a crowning corvetto and ovolo.”

“House D had Egyptian architectural features and artefacts, such as a stone slab with a corvetto cornice, a royal signet ring⟳ (Psamtik I), and mud sealings (Necho II) (Mumford 2007).”

“An Egyptologist's mind⟳ immediately turns to the ancient Egyptian counterpart to such an imagined protosactuary: a reed hut that all late Egyptian temples, in their archaizing longing to return⟳ to the origins, sought to emulate in stone through the typically Egyptian temple features of inward-sloping walls, torus and corvetto cornice.”

“The metope is occupied by a circular disk or shield, but in lieu of the regular cornice there is one which resembles the Egyptian cornice, consissting of a deep and high corvetto, and a bold torus below it”

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