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Updated: May 15, 2025
Scarcely could a remnant of the entablature still be distinguished at the summit of the pedestal, and beneath the cornice a string of ovolos, defaced and worn, was surmounted by what architects call a "chaplet of paternosters." On the table of the pedestal one could perceive a heap of debris of all kinds, in which tufts of grass were growing here and there.
"Sylvie, see, he wants us to have ovolos in the cornice of the corridor." "Do you call those ovolos?" "Yes, mademoiselle." "What an odd name! I never heard it before." "But you have seen the thing?" "Yes." "Do you understand Latin?" "No." "Well, it means eggs from the Latin ovum." "What queer fellows you are, you architects!" cried Rogron. "It is stepping on egg-shells to deal with you."
"Sylvie, see, he wants us to have ovolos in the cornice of the corridor." "Do you call those ovolos?" "Yes, mademoiselle." "What an odd name! I never heard it before." "But you have seen the thing?" "Yes." "Do you understand Latin?" "No." "Well, it means eggs from the Latin ovum." "What queer fellows you are, you architects!" cried Rogron. "It is stepping on egg-shells to deal with you."
After dinner we went to the Café Pedrocchi, celebrated throughout all Italy for its magnificence. Nothing could be more monumentally classic. There are nothing but pillars, columnets, ovolos, and palm leaves of the Percier and Fontain kind, the whole very fine and lavish of marble.
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