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 ofvine leaves andbunches ofgrapes , used fordecorating spiral columns .
Etymologies
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French pampre a vine branch, Latin pampinus.
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