cornice

1. 1.

   furnish with a cornice

   Broadersupply

   architecture

Other forms of cornice

plural

cornices·

past tense

corniced·

present participle

cornicing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cornice

What does cornice mean?

cornice means "a decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cornice?

cornice has 2 syllables: cor-nice. The stress falls on "cor".

What is another word for cornice?

Close synonyms include valance, valance board, pelmet. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cornice a common word?

cornice is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.