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antefix

antefix  

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[Ar]A Latin word for a terracotta plaque covering the end of an imbrex at eaves level, and usually decorated with an apotropaic subject.
cornice

cornice  

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A horizontal projection, principally designed to stop rain from running down the face of a wall. In a classical building it forms the topmost part of the entablature, and may ...
cymatium

cymatium  

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Crown-moulding of a Classical cornice, commonly of the cyma type, but sometimes an ovolo (in some Tuscan Orders) and sometimes a cavetto (in the Doric Order).
doucine

doucine  

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Cyma recta.
fastigium

fastigium  

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1 Slope or fall of any surface or plane.2 Gable or pediment.3 Raking mouldings, especially the cyma, of a pediment.4 Canopy carried on four columns, especially with a pedimented top.5 Ridge on a ...
fillet

fillet  

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[Co]A flat and narrow moulding on the surface of a wall or between the flutes of an Ionic or Corinthian column.
gorge

gorge  

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1 Shallow part-elliptical cavetto.2 Neck (gorgerin) of a column-shaft at the top, as in the Tuscan and Roman Doric Orders.3 Cyma.4 Apophyge.
gutter

gutter  

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Channel for taking water away, e.g. at the eaves of a roof. It may take several forms, e.g. be shaped like a cyma recta moulding, and is usually of metal.
hawksbeak

hawksbeak  

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1 Romanesque ovolo moulding enriched with sculpted beak-heads.2 Any moulding with a convex top and a concave underside meeting at a point, in section resembling the beak of a bird of prey, as on a ...
moulding

moulding  

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Any continuous projecting or inset architectural member with a contoured profile. It defines, casts shadows, enriches, emphasizes, and separates, and is usually horizontal or vertical, although it ...
ogee

ogee  

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In architecture, showing in section a double continuous S-shaped curve. The word comes (in late Middle English) from ogive, with which it was then synonymous; the current sense developed in the late ...
supercilium

supercilium  

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1 Lintel above an aperture (see antepagment).2 Fillet above a cyma on a cornice forming the topmost member of the entablature.3 Fillets above and below the scotia of an Attic base. 2. and 3. are of ...
Tuscan order

Tuscan order  

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A classical order of architecture resembling the Doric but lacking all ornamentation.
water leaf

water leaf  

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1 Transitional early Gothic C12 carved ornament on each angle of a capital, essentially a large, broad, plain leaf resembling a water-lily or lily-pad, flowing out from above the astragal in a ...

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