cornice
noun/ˈkɔːnɪs/
/ˈkɔːrnɪs/
(architecture)- a border around the top of the walls in a room or on the outside walls of a buildingTopics Houses and homesc2Word Originmid 16th cent.: from French corniche, from Italian cornice, perhaps from Latin cornix ‘crow’ (compare with corbel), but influenced by Greek korōnis ‘coping stone’.
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