cornices

Meaning of cornices

plural noun
  1. an ornamental moulding round the wall of a room just below the ceiling.
  2. an overhanging mass of hardened snow at the edge of a mountain precipice.

mid 16th century: from French corniche, from Italian cornice, perhaps from Latin cornix ‘crow’ (compare with corbel), but influenced by Greek korōnis ‘coping stone’.

Information about cornices

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of cornices is: cornice.
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Hyphenation of cornices

cor-nices

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • cornices is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Anagrams of cornices

conciser, croceins, escorcin

Words that rhyme with cornices

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