adj
Furnished with an altar.
n
(architecture) An enriched angle bead, often having a capital or base, or both.
n
(architecture) A small arched passageway.
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(architecture) A false balcony, or railing at the outer plane of a window-opening reaching to the floor, and resembling a balcony when the window is open.
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(countable) A building in form of a canopy, or a crown supported by pillars for the covering of an altar; a canopy carried over the host in Roman Catholic countries.
n
(architecture) A shelf that supports a loggia.
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Alternative form of bolection [(architecture) A moulding that covers a joint, especially between joints between surfaces on different levels.]
n
(architecture) A small band or fillet; any little band or flat moulding, compassing a column, like a ring.
n
(by extension) The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.
adj
Furnished with a gable or gables.
n
(architecture) An element crowning the upper end of the wall of a church and in which a bell is hung, usually in lieu of a campanile or bell tower.
adj
Furnished with bleachers.
adj
Furnished with bollards.
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(architecture) The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.
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(architecture) Carved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or parapet.
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(architecture, UK, dialect) A spire rising from a tower.
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(architecture) A barrier, balustrade or railing, or screen, dividing the main body of a church from the chancel.
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(architecture) In architecture, the case or frame used on three sides around a chamber door, large window, or fireplace mantel, and the border decorations.
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(India, Pakistan) A screen or blind made of finely slit bamboo and twine, hung in doorways or windows.
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(architecture) A mantelpiece.
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a gable or facade with a decorative bell-shape, characteristic of traditional Dutch architecture
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(transitive) To decorate something, especially a ceiling, with coffers.
n
(architecture) A collar beam.
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(architecture) An ornamental member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight, often S-shaped.
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A series of corbels or piece of continuous corbelled masonry.
adj
Having a series of square indentations
n
(architecture) A kind of indented molding used in Norman buildings.
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(architecture) A kind of indented moulding used in Norman buildings.
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(architecture) An ornamental finish on the top of a wall or ridge of a roof.
adj
(architecture) Having a crocket.
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(architecture) A cross-rib in a groined vault.
v
To perform a cupellation.
adj
Having one or more cupolas.
n
(architecture) A series of doors that provide a vista when open.
n
Alternative form of scuncheon [(architecture) The portion of a wall exposed by an opening in a wall such as a window or door frame, when the window frame does not conceal the entire width of the wall.]
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(architecture) The outer or upper curve of an arch.
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(architecture, construction) a method where the facade is designed and/or constructed independently of the remainder of the rest of the building.
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(by extension) Any decorative fitting at the peak of a gable, or on the top of a flagpole, fencepost, newel post of a staircase etc.
adj
Furnished with a foyer.
n
A pediment formed of two balancing double-curved molded members ending in a scroll or rosette
n
(architecture, chiefly in the plural) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings etc. are attached.
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(architecture) A squat vertical support structure.
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(architecture) That part of the architrave which is over a door or window.
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(architecture) A high narrow window, terminating in an arch acutely pointed, often double or triple, common in the first half of the 13th century.
adj
(architecture, obsolete, rare) Filled in with open lattice-work (?).
n
A long, narrow, vertical opening, usually widening inward, cut in a medieval wall, parapet, or fortification, for use by archers.
adj
(American spelling) Having louvers.
adj
Having machicolations.
adj
(rare, of a parapet) machicolated
adj
Having a mansard roof.
n
(architecture) A canopy, usually of glass, set as a shelter over a door opening onto a terrace or pavement.
adj
Having a minaret or minarets.
n
(medieval architecture) A round hole or circle with which an opening for an arrowslit terminates.
adj
(architecture) Furnished with an oriel.
adj
(architecture, of a structure) Either hanging in some sense, or constructed of multiple elements such as the voussoirs of an arch or the pendentives of a dome, none of which can stand on its own, but which in combination are stable.
n
Alternative form of pergola [A framework in the form of a passageway of columns that supports a trelliswork roof; used to support and train climbing plants.]
n
Obsolete form of pilaster. [(decorative architecture) A rectangular column that projects partially from the wall to which it attached; it gives the appearance of a support, but is only for decoration.]
n
A border of flowers in a garden, especially along a wall; a strip of turf forming a border.
n
(architecture) A projection.
n
(religious) One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.
n
(architecture) A squinch.
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(architecture) A squinch.
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(very rare) Alternative form of scuncheon [(architecture) The portion of a wall exposed by an opening in a wall such as a window or door frame, when the window frame does not conceal the entire width of the wall.]
n
(architecture) A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, etc.
n
(architecture) The portion of a wall exposed by an opening in a wall such as a window or door frame, when the window frame does not conceal the entire width of the wall.
n
Alternative form of scuncheon [(architecture) The portion of a wall exposed by an opening in a wall such as a window or door frame, when the window frame does not conceal the entire width of the wall.]
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(architecture) Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pedestal.
n
(architecture) A low plinth or pedestal used to display a statue or other artwork.
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(architecture) The fixed structure between the great hall and the screens passage in an English medieval timber house.
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Obsolete form of steeple (in the senses of “tower”, “spire”, etc.). [A tall tower, often on a church, normally topped with a spire.]
adj
(architecture) Of a building or architectural feature such as an arch or vault: supported by stilts (“supporting pillars or posts”); also (generally) having the main part raised above the usual level by some structure.
n
(obsolete, rare) A roof.
n
(architecture) An architectural element that no longer serves its purpose but is retained in a structure for aesthetic reasons.
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(architecture) A type of rib in Gothic vaulting, springing from the intersection of two other ribs.
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(architecture) Beams used instead of arches or vaulting.
n
(architecture) A crosspiece over a door; a lintel.
n
(architecture) A section formed by crossbeams.
adj
Having, or formed as, a trellis.
adj
Alternative form of verandaed [Having a veranda.]
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(architecture) The vaulted monumental structure at the western end of a church constructed in some medieval styles, flanked by two towers and containing the entrance.
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