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English

Noun

coping (plural copings)

1. (architecture) The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water.

   • Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […].
2. (psychology) The process of managing taxing circumstances, expending effort to solve personal and interpersonal problems, and seeking to master, minimize, reduce or tolerate stress or conflict.
3. (falconry) Clipping the beak or talons of a bird.

Translations

Verb

coping

1. present participle of cope

Anagrams

• picong

English

Etymology

From Middle French corniche or Italian cornice, from Latin corn?x (“crow”).

Noun

cornice (plural cornices)

1. (architecture) A horizontal architectural element of a building, projecting forward from the main walls, originally used as a means of directing rainwater away from the building's walls.
2. A decorative element applied at the topmost part of the wall of a room, as with a crown molding.
3. A decorative element at the topmost portion of certain pieces of furniture, as with a highboy.
4. (geography, mountaineering) An overhanging edge of snow on a ridge or the crest of a mountain and along the sides of gullies.

   Synonym: snow cornice

See also

• eaves
• fascia

Translations

Verb

cornice (third-person singular simple present cornices, present participle cornicing, simple past and past participle corniced)

1. (transitive) To furnish or decorate with a cornice.

Further reading

• cornice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• Creonic, crocein

Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (kor?nís, “curved line”), influenced by Latin corn?x from the same root.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kor?ni.t??e/
• Rhymes: -it?e

Noun

cornice f (plural cornici)

1. frame
2. (architecture) cornice

   Synonym: cornicione

3. ledge
4. (figuratively) background, setting

Derived terms

• cornicione
• incorniciare

References

Anagrams

• riccone

Latin

Noun

c?rn?ce

1. ablative singular of c?rn?x