ogee

English

two ogee curve (1) examples with their extended S-shape (cyma recta, cyma reversa)

From Middle English *ogeve, egeve, egeove, from Old French œgive, ogive, augive, from Late Latin augiva, of uncertain origin; compare Late Latin ogis (“a support, prop”), Latin augeō (“to increase, strengthen”), Spanish auge (“highest point of power or fortune, apogee”). Doublet of ogive.

ogee (plural ogees)

(architecture) A double curve in the shape of an elongated S; an object of that shape.
Coordinate terms: cymatium, cyma
- 1905, Charles Herbert Moore, “Chapter 13”, in Character of Renaissance Architecture:
  At the centre of this façade of one story is a porch of two stories with a tall attic and a gable of ogee outline flanked by finials.
- 1910, Francis Bond, “Chapter 3”, in Wood Carvings in English Churches:
  There is no pronounced ogee arch anywhere, though there is a suspicion of one where the open trefoils of the gables rest upon the containing arches. The tracery too of all the circles is geometrical, i.e., composed of simple curves; there is no flowing or ogee tracery with compound curves.
- 1959 June, A. G. Dunbar, “The "Cardeans" of the Caledonian”, in Trains Illustrated, page 309:
  In front of the leading splasher the frame was given what is called an ogee bend outwards, [...].
(architecture) A pointed arch made from two ogees.
Synonym: ogive
(mathematics) An inflection point.
(aesthetic facial surgery) The malar or cheekbone prominence transitioning into the mid-cheek hollow.
(distillation) The bubble-shaped chamber of a pot still that connects the swan neck to the pot and allows distillate to expand, condense, and fall back into the pot.

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