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Volute
[vəl-YOOT]
Part of speech: adjective
Origin: French, mid-16th century
1.
Forming a spiral curve or curves.
Examples of Volute in a sentence
"Both sea and land snails have similarly volute shells."
"Greek architecture is easily recognizable by the volutes on top of columns."
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