fusarole

English

Etymology

From French fusarolle, from Italian fusaruolo, from fuso (“spindle, shaft of a column”). See fusee (“a conical wheel”).

Noun

fusarole (plural fusaroles)

1. (architecture) A moulding generally placed under the echinus or quarter round of capitals in the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders of architecture.

Synonyms

• astragal

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fusarole”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)