Usually means: Ornamental scrollwork with foliate forms.
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Definitions from Wikipedia (Rinceau)

noun:  In architecture and the decorative arts, a rinceau (plural rinceaux; from the French, derived from old French rain 'branch with foliage') is a decorative form consisting of a continuous wavy stemlike motif from which smaller leafy stems or groups of leaves branch out at more or less regular intervals.


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