Corniche vs. Cornice

Cornichenoun

A road built on a ledge (cliff), especially along water (a river, sea, etc).

Corniche

A corniche is a road on the side of a cliff or mountain, with the ground rising on one side and falling away on the other. The word has been absorbed into English from the French term route à corniche or , originally derived from the Italian cornice, for .

Cornicenoun

(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.

Cornicenoun

A decorative element applied at the topmost part of the wall of a room, as with a crown molding.

Cornicenoun

A decorative element at the topmost portion of certain pieces of furniture, as with a highboy.

Cornicenoun

An overhanging edge of snow on a ridge or the crest of a mountain and along the sides of gullies.

Corniceverb

(transitive) To furnish or decorate with a cornice.

Cornicenoun

Any horizontal, molded or otherwise decorated projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed; as, the cornice of an order, pedestal, door, window, or house.

Cornicenoun

a decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing

Cornicenoun

a molding at the corner between the ceiling and the top of a wall

Cornicenoun

the topmost projecting part of an entablature

Corniceverb

furnish with a cornice

Cornice

In architecture, a cornice (from the Italian cornice meaning ) is generally any horizontal decorative moulding that crowns a building or furniture element – the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the top edge of a pedestal or along the top of an interior wall. A simple cornice may be formed just with a crown, as in crown moulding atop an interior wall or above kitchen cabinets or a bookcase.