1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Scotia

SCOTIA (Gr. σκοτία, shadow or darkness), in architecture, a concave moulding most commonly used in bases, which projects a deep shadow on itself, and is thereby a most effective moulding under the eye, as in a base. (See Moulding.)

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