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(architecture) An ornament composed of two ogee curves meeting in the middle, each concave toward its outer extremity and convex toward the point at which it meets the other. Such accolades are either plain or adorned with rich moldings, and are a frequent motive of decoration on the lintels of doors and windows of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, especially in secular architecture.
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(architecture) A plinth or pedestal bearing a statue
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(architecture) Synonym of flying buttress
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(architecture) The annular moulding or group of mouldings dividing a long shaft or clustered column into two or more parts.
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(architecture) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
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(architecture) Having a bolection.
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Alternative form of boultel [(architecture) A moulding with quarter-circle convexity, found just below the abacus in the Tuscan and Roman Doric capital; a torus; an ovolo.]
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(architecture) A moulding with quarter-circle convexity, found just below the abacus in the Tuscan and Roman Doric capital; a torus; an ovolo.
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Alternative form of boultel [(architecture) A moulding with quarter-circle convexity, found just below the abacus in the Tuscan and Roman Doric capital; a torus; an ovolo.]
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(architecture) An octagonal spire rising from a square tower without a parapet, with pyramidal forms at the angles.
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(obsolete, architecture) A drop of a Doric architrave.
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(architecture) Having the angles marked by, or decorated with, projecting mouldings or small columns.
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A sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head.
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Alternative spelling of caryatid [A sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head.]
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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) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.
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(architecture) Synonym of apophyge or cavetto: supports at the top or bottom of pillars, particularly rings or ferrils in the extremities of wooden pillars, added to provide support and prevent splintering, their imitation in stone, or a molding in the form of a quarter round.
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(architecture) An ornament in a building; a corbel.
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(architecture) A horizontal row of corbels, with the panels or filling between them.
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(architecture) A horizontal architectural element of a building, projecting forward from the main walls, originally used as a means of directing rainwater away from the building's walls.
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(carpentry) A ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
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(architecture) The chevron or zigzag moulding common in Romanesque architecture.
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(construction) A dormer, usually of small size, whose roof line over the upright face is typically an arched curve, turning into a reverse curve to meet the horizontal line at either end.
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(architecture) A decorative coping on a gable wall that rises up to obscure the roof line.
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(architecture) A godroon.
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(of a building) Having gargoyles carved into it
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(architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
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(architecture) In some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between two neck moldings; the hypotrachelium.
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(architecture) Alternative form of groined (“built with groins/groynes”) [(architecture) Built with groins.]
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(architecture) A type of corbel used for decoration in Islamic and Persian architecture.
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(architecture) One of the ribs in a groined vault; a projecting moulding.
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(architecture) A tall, square, tapered, stone monolith topped with a pyramidal point, frequently used as a monument.
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Obsolete form of oriel. [(architecture) A large polygonal recess in a building, such as a bay window, forming a protrusion on the outer wall.]
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A paved surface, a pavement (now only in French contexts).
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Obsolete spelling of perched
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(architecture) Furnished with a pediment
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A block or slab upon which a column, pedestal, statue or other structure is based.
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Archaic spelling of plinth. [A block or slab upon which a column, pedestal, statue or other structure is based.]
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Having a surface marked by regmaglypts.
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(Chester, historical) An area of sixty-four square yards.
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(architecture) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
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(architecture) The die of a pedestal.
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(architecture) Horizontal member between the windows of successive storeys of a tall building.
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(architecture) Having one or more spandrels.
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(architecture) A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
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(architecture) The flute of a column.
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Alternative form of stylobate [(Classical Greek architecture) The top step of the crepidoma, i.e. the platform upon which the superstructure of the building is erected.]
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(Classical Greek architecture) The top step of the crepidoma, i.e. the platform upon which the superstructure of the building is erected.
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(architecture) An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
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(architecture) Ornamental work over niches, stalls, etc. with canopies and pinnacles, or any work having these as a characteristic feature.
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(architecture) a statue with a head or bust carved out of the top of a square tapering pillar, originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome.
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(architecture) An entablature.
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(architecture) The body of the Corinthian capital.
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(architecture) Alternative form of socle [(architecture) A low plinth or pedestal used to display a statue or other artwork.]
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