Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The outward curve at the top and bottom of a column where the shaft joins the capital or base.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In architecture: That part of a column of one of the more ornate orders which is molded into a concave sweep where the shaft springs from the base or terminates in the capital. Sometimes called the scape or spring of the column. See
order . The hollow or scotia beneath the echinus of the Doric capital, occurring in some archaic examples, and relinquished as the style advanced. Also calledapophysis and congé.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) The small hollow curvature given to the top or bottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the
scape .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun architecture A
curvature found on the top or bottom of certaincolumns .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Greek apophugē, from apopheugein, apophug-, to flee : apo-, apo- + pheugein, to flee.]
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From Ancient Greek αποφυγή (apophugē), from απο- (apo-, "away") and φυγή (phugē, "flight").
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Examples
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Among the blocks, we also observed fragments of column bases with a molded apophyge.
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