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astragal
noun
A molding for edging or decorating furniture.
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Patti Smith on reading Albertine Sarrazin's "Astragal," which is being reprinted this month by New Directions.
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The knuckle, wrist, or ankle bones (astragals) of goats, sheep, or other animals also have been used in play.
It is an experience that awaits in the Royal Academy where, jacked up eight metres into the air, you find yourself eye-level with one of the galleries' ornate ceilings, swallowed into a scene of ovolos and astragals, anthemions and palmettes, a dense world of plaster mouldings.
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