different between highboy vs cornice

English

Etymology

See high and tallboy.

Noun

highboy (plural highboys)

1. A tall chest of drawers raised up on high legs.
   • (US) National Gallery of Art

     During the Queen Anne period in America, the highboy attained its characteristic form. [...] The cabriole leg was a distinctive feature developed in the Queen Anne period; its shape repeats the S-curve that dominated all Queen Anne design.

2. (dated) One who enjoys the high life.
3. (dated) A political highflier.

Synonyms

• (tall chest of drawers): tallboy

Related terms

• lowboy

Translations

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