egg-and-dart.

An ornamental pattern alternating oval egg-like forms with pointed dart-like shapes.

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Words that belong together

• egg-and-dart molding
• egg-and-dart border

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Egg-and-dart molding edged the cornice.

The border repeated the egg-and-dart pattern.

Paint had filled the details of the egg-and-dart ornament.

Usage notes

Primary category: architecture. Forms: Normally a mass noun; no ordinary plural needed. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.