Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A stylized palm leaf used as a decorative element, notably in Persian rugs and in classical moldings, reliefs, frescoes, and vase paintings.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In certain gastropods, an appendage of the head.
- noun In class. archæol., an ornament more or less resembling a palm-leaf, whether carved in relief on moldings, etc., or painted; an anthemion. See cut on following page.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A floral ornament, common in Greek and other ancient architecture; -- often called
the honeysuckle ornament .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
motif indecorative art resembling thefan -shapedleaves of apalm tree .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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As for the so-called "palmette," it is neither more nor less than a variation of the lotus.
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Here we identify the original of the supposed "palmette" motive.
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The palmette capitals of the tree-like columns are not lotus-blossom capitals, as Weinberg and other classicists once supposed, much less “proto-Aeolic” capitals as William F. Albright thought.
Archive 2008-02-01 Jan 2008
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The akroterion with the triton and the palmette from the left side wing
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Hadrianic Nymphaeum Report 5 2003
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On the front side it represents a Triton blowing a shell, and on the right side it shows a nice palmette.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Hadrianic Nymphaeum Report 5 2003
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It represents a female face in relief, as occurs so often in Greek pottery, surrounded by an ornament of lotus, maeander and palmette.
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For Sir Arthur Evans has collected all the stages in the transformation of Egyptian palmette pillars into the rayed pillars of
The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith
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It is moulded fully in the round, but by way of adornment, in close agreement with the tradition of vase-painting, the head is wreathed with rosettes and crowned by a single palmette.
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An ever present feature, also, is the palmette acroterium, treated in conventional ceramic style.
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Among these fragments we note an anthemion, some bits of the so-called Oriental palmette, and a few scraps of lotus pattern, naturalistically treated.
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