honeysuckle ornament

noun

1. anthemion.

honeysuckle ornament

noun

1. arts another term for anthemion

Word History and Origins

Origin of honeysuckle ornament¹

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

One of them, of purple woollen material, from a tomb assigned to the 4th century B.C., is embroidered in wools of different colours with a man on horseback, honeysuckle ornament and tendrils.

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Though generally known as the honeysuckle ornament, from its resemblance to that flower, its origin will be found in the flower of the acanthus plant.

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If the reader will merely turn Plate 8 so as to look at the figure upright, with its stalk downwards, he will see that it is also the base of the honeysuckle ornament of the Greeks.

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But the cornices a and d are copies of nothing of the kind: the idea of them has indeed been taken from the Greek honeysuckle ornament, but the chiselling of them is in no wise either Greek, or Byzantine, in temper.

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Hence part of the pleasure we have in the Greek honeysuckle ornament, and such others.

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