Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In art, the general outline or form of any rounded object, as a head or vase; especially, in architecture, the curved form of a column, a Doric capital, or other similar feature.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Art) The general outward form of any solid object, as of a column or a vase.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
contour oroutline of something.
Etymologies
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From French galbe.
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Examples
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Le galbe evase de ses hanches: had one ever read a French novel in which that phrase didn't occur?
Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley 1928
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Le galbe evase de ses hanches: had one ever read a French novel in which that phrase didn't occur?
Crome Yellow Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1921
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The architectural _galbe_ that was the joy of the few, and the bedazement of "the Board," crumbles beneath the pick, as did the north side of St. Mark's, and history is wiped from the face of Chelsea.
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies James McNeill Whistler 1868
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