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(art) A painted framed niche giving the appearance of depth.
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(architecture) In Mozarabic architecture, moulding which encloses the outward side of an arch.
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(art, architecture, also attributively) An elaborate design of intertwined floral figures or complex geometrical patterns, mainly used in Islamic art and architecture.
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(architecture) The lowest part of an entablature; rests on the capitals of the columns.
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(architecture) Decorated with stars.
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Furnished with pillars.
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(architecture) An arch whose intrados, though apparently straight, has a slightly concave curve upward.
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(architecture) A caryatid supporting a basket on her head.
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(architecture) In the Corinthian capital, one of the eight stalks rising out of the lower leafage and terminating in leaves which seem to support the volutes.
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(architecture) The semidome of an apse, or the apse itself.
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(architecture) cornices collectively
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(architecture) cornices collectively
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(architecture) Part of the Ionic capital between the abacus and quarter round, which forms the volute.
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An ornament of tracery like the four petals of a cruciform flower; a quatrefoil.
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(architecture) A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window.
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(architecture) A point made by the intersection of two curved lines or curved structures, a common motif in Gothic architecture.
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(architecture) An arch that has a cycloidal shape, wherein the span of the arch is some factor of pi*rise.
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(architecture) A cyma (moulding) concave in its upper part, and convex in its lower part.
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(architecture) A cyma (moulding) convex in its upper part, and concave in its lower part.
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(architecture) A type of molding that is wavelike in form.
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(architecture) The quarter-round moulding (ovolo) of the Roman Doric style.
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(architecture) The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column; a fillet.
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(architecture) Tracery rising from a capital or a corbel, and diverging like the folds of a fan over the surface of a vault.
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(derogatory) A form of architectural design based around certain accentuated features.
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(architecture) A moulding generally placed under the echinus or quarter round of capitals in the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders of architecture.
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(architecture) An arch in the shape of ogive.
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(art) A decorative border constructed from a continuous line, shaped into a repeated motif, that is commonly found in Greek art.
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(architecture) The side of an arch from the topmost part (crown) to the bottommost part (impost).
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(architecture) A gorgerin
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Alternative form of macrocollum [(historical) A variety of paper in Ancient Rome, measuring a foot and a half in width.]
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(architecture) the plain surface between the channels of a triglyph
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(architecture) The plane surface between the channels of a triglyph.
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(architecture) The latticed projecting windows of private houses, in Islamic architecture.
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(architecture) A decoratively carved supporting block atop a column.
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(architecture) decorated with octofoils
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(architecture) A double curve in the shape of an elongated S; an object of that shape.
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(architecture) a fillet under the ovolo of a capital
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(architecture) A door, shutter, etc. with four folds.
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(architecture) decorated with quatrefoils
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A form of arch in which the intrados is straight, but with its joints drawn radially.
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Alternative spelling of sile [(now chiefly dialectal) A column; pillar.]
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Obsolete spelling of cyma [(architecture) A moulding of the cornice, wavelike in form, whose outline consists of a concave and a convex line; an ogee.]
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(architecture) An ornamental panel in any triangular space.
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(architecture) trabeated
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(architecture) Synonym of trabeated
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(architecture) A screen.
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(architecture) A vertically channeled tablet of the Doric frieze.
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A small moulding of rectangular cross section, in a Doric triglyph, etc.
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(architecture) An annular moulding whose section is concave, like the edge of a pulley; a scotia.
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(architecture) The characteristic spiral curve on an Ionic capital, widely copied in other styles and in neoclassical architecture.
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(architecture) A plinth.
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