What's the difference between casemate and cornice?

Casemate


Definition:

  • (n.) A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops.
  • (n.) A hollow molding, chiefly in cornices.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Things are going to get tough,” said Edward Macquisten of the Gibraltar chamber of commerce, in his office above the main Casemates Square.

Cornice


Definition:

  • (n.) Any horizontal, molded or otherwise decorated projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed; as, the cornice of an order, pedestal, door, window, or house.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The two victims had fallen down a rock face after the breaking off of a cornice and had come to rest in the uppermost part of the accumulation area.
  • (2) Some houses have bulbous bulls’ heads, accessorised by grapes, jutting out above their front door; others have busts of Greek gods peering over the skylight, moustaches lovingly carved; others complex cornices, ideal for storing 120 years of grime.
  • (3) Helvellyn's Striding and Swirral Edges and Pinnacle Ridge on St Sunday Crag, from where Blackpool Tower can be seen, were for a short time corniced with frosted snow.
  • (4) The wavy furrows and ridges were repeatedly formed and appeared just like a cornice.

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