Does anybody know what 'exvolute' means?

[Pokey007]

This word is in the context:

?the Sullivanian motif was efflorescent, exvolute, supported by tracery of geometric motives ? bringing up the clay in forms so delicate and varied and lively that no parallel in these respects exists?

by Frank Lloyd Wright,

I tried to look it up on dictionary.com, but it wasn't in the database.

Any people with really good vocab out there? And hey, if no one knows, we can make up our own definition.

 

[Black88GTA]

Ex-vo-lute (v)

To use large, obscure words no normal person knows to make youself sound 133t.

 

[Electric Amish]

Main Entry: 1in·vo·lute
Pronunciation: 'in-v&-"lüt
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin involutus concealed, from past participle of involvere
1 a : curled spirally b (1) : curled or curved inward (2) : having the edges rolled over the upper surface toward the midrib <an involute leaf> c : having the form of an involute <a gear with involute teeth>

I believe it would be the opposite i.e. curling outward.

 

[pcmodem]

In my voice from My Cousin Vinny


"Evolute? Did you say evolute? What's an evolute?"



Cheers, :beer:
PCM

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish

Main Entry: 1in·vo·lute
Pronunciation: 'in-v&amp;-"lüt
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin involutus concealed, from past participle of involvere
1 a : curled spirally b (1) : curled or curved inward (2) : having the edges rolled over the upper surface toward the midrib <an involute leaf> c : having the form of an involute <a gear with involute teeth>

I believe it would be the opposite i.e. curling outward.

Yep...

 

[EmperorOfIceCream]

if anyone has access to an unabridged oxford english dictionary it would certainly have a definition...

 

[Pokey007]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: Electric Amish

Main Entry: 1in·vo·lute
Pronunciation: 'in-v&amp;-"lüt
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin involutus concealed, from past participle of involvere
1 a : curled spirally b (1) : curled or curved inward (2) : having the edges rolled over the upper surface toward the midrib <an involute leaf> c : having the form of an involute <a gear with involute teeth>

I believe it would be the opposite i.e. curling outward.

Yep...

Thanks, I think that fits.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Was Wright talking about his Guggenheim design? That's definitely a curling-outward design.

ZV

 

[Pokey007]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Was Wright talking about his Guggenheim design? That's definitely a curling-outward design.

ZV

No, Wright was talking about Louis Sullivan's use of organic Terra-Cotta ornament. He said it in one section of his "in the cause of architecture" essay, I believe it was around 1928.