ogee

 

From Middle English *ogeve, egeve, egeove, from Old French œgive, ogive, augive, from Late Latin augiva, of uncertain origin; compare Late Latin ogis (“a support, prop”), Latin augeō (“to increase, strengthen”), Spanish auge (“highest point of power or fortune, apogee”). Doublet of ogive.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /oʊˈd͡ʒiː/, /ˈoʊd͡ʒiː/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əʊˈd͡ʒiː/, /ˈəʊd͡ʒiː/

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• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophone: O.G.

ogee (plural ogees)

1. (architecture) A double curve in the shape of an elongated S; an object of that shape.

   Coordinate terms: cymatium, cyma

   • 1905, Charles Herbert Moore, “Chapter 13”, in Character of Renaissance Architecture:

     At the centre of this façade of one story is a porch of two stories with a tall attic and a gable of ogee outline flanked by finials.

   • 1910, Francis Bond, “Chapter 3”, in Wood Carvings in English Churches:

     There is no pronounced ogee arch anywhere, though there is a suspicion of one where the open trefoils of the gables rest upon the containing arches. The tracery too of all the circles is geometrical, i.e., composed of simple curves; there is no flowing or ogee tracery with compound curves.

   • 1959 June, A. G. Dunbar, “The "Cardeans" of the Caledonian”, in Trains Illustrated, page 309:

     In front of the leading splasher the frame was given what is called an ogee bend outwards, [...].

2. (architecture) A pointed arch made from two ogees.

   Synonym: ogive

3. (mathematics) An inflection point.
4. (aesthetic facial surgery) The malar or cheekbone prominence transitioning into the mid-cheek hollow.
5. (distillation) The bubble-shaped chamber of a pot still that connects the swan neck to the pot and allows distillate to expand, condense, and fall back into the pot.

• ogee arch
• ogee clock
• ogee washer

• line of beauty

•   ogee on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
•   Ogee in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “ogee”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.