Stringcourse vs. Cornice — What's the Difference?

A horizontal band or molding set in the face of a building as a design element.

In architecture, a cornice (from the Italian cornice meaning "ledge") is generally any horizontal decorative moulding that crowns a building or furniture element – the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the top edge of a pedestal or along the top of an interior wall. A simple cornice may be formed just with a crown, as in crown moulding atop an interior wall or above kitchen cabinets or a bookcase.

(architecture) A thin projecting course of brickwork or stone that runs horizontally around a building, typically to emphasize the junction between floors.

A horizontal molded projection that crowns or completes a building or wall.

A horizontal band in a building, forming a part of the design, whether molded, projecting, or carved, or in any way distinguished from the rest of the work.

The uppermost part of an entablature.

A strip of molding that runs along the upper part of a wall just below the ceiling.

An ornamental horizontal molding or frame used to conceal rods, picture hooks, or other devices.

An overhanging mass of windblown snow on a ridge or the crest of a mountain.

To supply, decorate, or finish with or as if with a cornice.

(architectural element) A horizontal architectural element of a building, projecting forward from the main walls, originally used as a means of directing rainwater away from the building's walls.

A decorative element applied at the topmost part of the wall of a room, as with a crown molding.

A decorative element at the topmost portion of certain pieces of furniture, as with a highboy.

An overhanging edge of snow on a ridge or the crest of a mountain and along the sides of gullies.

(transitive) To furnish or decorate with a cornice.

Any horizontal, molded or otherwise decorated projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed; as, the cornice of an order, pedestal, door, window, or house.

A decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing

A molding at the corner between the ceiling and the top of a wall

The topmost projecting part of an entablature

Furnish with a cornice