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In architecture an ogee or ogyve is a moulding formed by the combination of a round and hollow, part being concave and part convex. In classical architecture ogees are extensively used, and are always placed with the convex part upwards. Among the Greeks they were formed with quirks at the top, but by the Romans these were very frequently omitted.
In Gothic architecture also ogees are very abundantly employed, but they are, quite as often as not, used with the hollow part upwards, and in such cases might in strictness be called cyma rectas. They are almost invariably quirked. In Norman work they are very rarely found, and are less common in the Early English than in either of the later styles.
This moulding assumed different forms at different periods, and the variations, although not sufficiently constant to afford conclusive evidence of the date of a building, often impart very great assistance.
The term ogee is also applied to a pointed arch (known then also as an ogee arch), the sides of which are each formed of two contrasted curves.
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