ballflower

[bawl-flou-er]

ball·flow·er

[bawl-flou-er]
noun Architecture.
a medieval English ornament suggesting a flower of three or four petals enclosing and partly concealing a ball.

Origin:
1835–45; ball1 + flower
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Ballflower is always a great word to know.
So is dome. Does it mean:
the part of a classical entablature between the architrave and the cornice, usually decorated with sculpture in low relief
a vault with a circular plan and usually in the form of a portion of a sphere
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ballflower (ˈbɔːlˌflaʊə)
 
n
architect a carved ornament in the form of a ball enclosed by the three petals of a circular flower

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