ovolo in English

noun
1
a rounded convex molding, in cross section a quarter of a circle or ellipse.
The rebate would have been cut with a moving or standing fillister and the ovolo cut with a moulding plane that might well have also been used in other more general purpose joinery.
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1. Boltel definition, a convex molding, as a torus or ovolo

2. 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