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English

Etymology

From Middle French corniche or Italian cornice, from Latin corn?x (“crow”).

Noun

cornice (plural cornices)

1. (architecture) A horizontal architectural element of a building, projecting forward from the main walls, originally used as a means of directing rainwater away from the building's walls.
2. A decorative element applied at the topmost part of the wall of a room, as with a crown molding.
3. A decorative element at the topmost portion of certain pieces of furniture, as with a highboy.
4. (geography, mountaineering) An overhanging edge of snow on a ridge or the crest of a mountain and along the sides of gullies.

   Synonym: snow cornice

See also

• eaves
• fascia

Translations

Verb

cornice (third-person singular simple present cornices, present participle cornicing, simple past and past participle corniced)

1. (transitive) To furnish or decorate with a cornice.

Further reading

• cornice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• Creonic, crocein

Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (kor?nís, “curved line”), influenced by Latin corn?x from the same root.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kor?ni.t??e/
• Rhymes: -it?e

Noun

cornice f (plural cornici)

1. frame
2. (architecture) cornice

   Synonym: cornicione

3. ledge
4. (figuratively) background, setting

Derived terms

• cornicione
• incorniciare

References

Anagrams

• riccone

Latin

Noun

c?rn?ce

1. ablative singular of c?rn?x

English

Etymology

French planche.

Noun

plancher (plural planchers)

1. A floor made of wood.
2. A plank.

   • Elm; [used] some for planchers

3. (architecture) The underside of a cornice; a soffit.

Verb

plancher (third-person singular simple present planchers, present participle planchering, simple past and past participle planchered)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To form using planks.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Golding to this entry?)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl??.?e/

Etymology 1

From planche.

Noun

plancher m (plural planchers)

1. floor
2. lower limit
3. (anatomy) floor

Derived terms

• débarrasser le plancher
• mettre le pied au plancher
• plancher des vaches

Etymology 2

From planche.

Verb

plancher

1. (intransitive) to talk

Conjugation

Further reading

• “plancher” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).