a. [f. as prec. + -ED.]
1. Spirally twisted or grooved.
1801. Charlotte Smith, Lett. Solit. Wand., I. 39. A table covered with green plush, the voluted legs of which seemed to have been produced as a great effort of art.
1806. Anna Seward, Lett. (1811), VI. 281. Its voluted wreaths are doubtless in the natural horn; art could not produce them.
1836. Blackw. Mag., XXXIX. 201. An old high-backed arm chair, its voluted oak legs and framework blackened by Time.
2. Arch. Furnished with a volute or spiral scroll.
1804. Rudim. Anc. Archit. (ed. 3), 15. The boldness of the voluted capital, with the beauty of the shaft, makes it eligible for porticoes, frontispieces, entrances to houses, &c.
a. 1878. Sir G. Scott, Lect. Archit. (1879), II. 302. The voluted capital was an accidental introduction from the East.
1887. Pall Mall G., 18 Aug., 14/1. This thing, with its huge voluted buttresses,… should serve as a warning to all who contemplate bridge building.
