cyma-reversa

noun Architecture.

a cyma whose convex part projects beyond the concave part.

Also called Lesbian cyma, Lesbian cymatium.

Origin:
1555–65; < Neo-Latin: literally, reversed cyma

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cyma reversa
noun
a molding that (in section) has the shape of an S with the convex part above and the concave part below [syn: ogee]

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