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Volute   Listen
noun
Volute  n.  
1.
(Arch.) A spiral scroll which forms the chief feature of the Ionic capital, and which, on a much smaller scale, is a feature in the Corinthian and Composite capitals.
2.
(Zool.) A spiral turn, as in certain shells.
3.
(Zool.) Any voluta.
Volute spiring, a spring formed of a spiral scroll of plate, rod, or wire, extended or extensible in the direction of the axis of the coil, in which direction its elastic force is exerted and employed.





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"Volute" Quotes from Famous Books



... the same arrangement in those light structures which we have classed as belonging to the architecture of the tent (Figs. 70 and 72). The origin of the forms employed in stone buildings is most clearly shewn by the frequent occurrence of the volute, a curvilinear element suggested by the use and peculiar ...
— A History of Art in Chaldaea & Assyria, v. 1 • Georges Perrot


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