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Egg-and-dart
A carved ornament of alternating egg shapes and arrow-heads, run along an ovolo moulding.
See also: Ovolo
Rules that use the word
The Greek egg-and-dart. Space the eggs from centre to centre at the height of the moulding; make each egg as wide as the space between two eggs, and divide that space into three, giving the middle part to the dart and the outer parts to the shell that encloses each egg.
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters The Ionic Order, The Composite Order.
Nearby in the glossary
Drum · Duck · Eaves · Echinus · Emplekton · Enfilade · Engawa · English bond