Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In architecture, an ornament consisting of vine-leaves and grapes, with which hollows, as the circumvolutions of twisted columns, are sometimes decorated.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Sculp.) An ornament, composed of vine leaves and bunches of grapes, used for decorating spiral columns.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An ornament, composed of vine leaves and bunches of grapes, used for decorating spiral columns.

Etymologies

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French pampre a vine branch, Latin pampinus.

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