egg-and-dart in English

noun
1
a motif of alternating eggs and darts, used to enrich an ovolo molding.
The ornamental patterns - among them classical egg and dart , a wave pattern, a braid and twisted bands - were arranged to suggest contrasting directions and speeds of movement.

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1. Upper Edge Egg and Dart Polyurethane Dado Cornice (2400 x 51 x 16mm) Deliver

2. Quiet Room on ground floor has 2 mid C18 doorcases, one with heavily moulded and Bolectioned cornice head, the other with cornice with egg-and-dart moulding with bay leaf frieze below, supported on scrolled brackets

3. Carved, draped, straight, standing female figure (cora), supporting on its head an astragal (enriched with bead-and-reel), ovolo (enriched with egg-and-dart), and square abacus, used as a substitute for a column, and supporting an entablature.The best-known example of the use of Caryatids in Greek Antiquity was the south porch of the Erechtheion, Athens (c.421