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What is a cyma?

What is a cyma? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (architecture) A moulding of the cornice, wavelike in form, whose outline consists of a concave and a convex line; an ogee.
  2. (botany) = cyme
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Cyma Zarghami, president of the Nickelodeon Group, said she preferred to wait until the cable channel had more information about how its audience used mobile devices.
From a high central half-round, the skirt descends along cyma or ogee curves to cusps that set off shallow arches with small half-rounds in the middle.
The continuous pattern of alternating lotus and palmette springing from connecting spirals decorates especially the cyma recta molding of the cornice.
Compound, serpentine mouldings include cyma recta, cymatium, cyma reversa and beak moulding, whose upper part is concave and lower part is convex.
It is made of walnut tree brier, with the typical shape in the lower part, in the shoulders, on the front and above the cyma.
The long cylindrical naves of his Cannstatt type are likely candidates for lathe-turning, no less than Vix and others with versions of the classical cyma recta moulding.

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