ogee

noun

Etymology: From Middle English *ogeve, egeve, egeove, from Old French œgive, ogive, augive, from Late Latin augiva, of uncertain origin; compare Late Latin ogis (“a support, prop”), Latin augeō (“to increase, strengthen”), Italian and Spanish auge (“highest point of power or fortune, apogee”). Doublet of ogive.

1. A double curve in the shape of an elongated S; an object of that shape.

   “At the centre of this façade of one story is a porch of two stories with a tall attic and a gable of ogee outline flanked by finials.”

   “There is no pronounced ogee arch anywhere, though there is a suspicion of one where the open trefoils of the gables rest upon the containing arches. The tracery too of all the circles is geometrical, i.e., composed of simple curves; there is no flowing or ogee tracery with compound curves.”

2. A pointed arch made from two ogees.
3. An inflection point.
4. The malar or cheekbone prominence transitioning into the mid-cheek hollow.
5. The bubble-shaped chamber of a pot still that connects the swan neck to the pot and allows distillate to expand, condense, and fall back into the pot.