See cornice ring on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2019, Marylin Martin Rhie, Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia, page 712:",
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"text": "Gorgerin, m . The neck of a gun (which lies between the muzzle-mouldings and the cornice-ring.)",
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"ref": "1941, Proceedings of the Connecticut Association of Civil Engineers and Surveyors Association at Its 1st Annual Meeting..., page 64:",
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