Definitions for "Cornices"
Any horizontal, molded, or otherwise decorated projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed. For example the cornice of an order, pedestal, door, window, or house.
Made of painted or stained wood, or a fabric covered foam fascia. The bottom can be straight or shaped. They are installed above a window to conceal the hardware much like a valance. Draw Draperies: Draperies which hang from a traverse rod and can be drawn to open or close into the center or to one side. Cascades
accumulations of wind driven snow on the lee side of ridges and other features often overhanging, they can be unstable and break away due to human or natural causes when on ridges stay well back from the edge - preferably on solid rock avoid traveling on slopes below cornices