• (n.) An ornament on a frieze or capital, consisting of festoons of fruit, flowers, leaves, etc.
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En·car'pus noun [ New Latin , from Greek ... containing fruit; ... in + ... fruit; confer Latin
encarpa , plural, Greek ....]
(Architecture) An ornament on a frieze or capital, consisting of festoons of fruit, flowers, leaves, etc. [ Written also
encarpa .]
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In architecture, an encarpus is an ornament on a frieze or capital, consisting of festoons of fruit, flowers, leaves, etc. The encarpus is sometimes composed of an imitation of drapery similarly disposed, and sometimes of an assemblage of musical instruments, implements of war or of the chase.
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an ornament having draperies, weapons, etc., arranged in the manner of a festoon.
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