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Arcade a passage or walkway covered over by a succession of arches or vaults supported by columns. Baguette, a little round Moulding less than an Astragal , sometimes carved, and enriched with Foliage s, Pearl s, Ribband s, Laurel s, etc. When enriched with ornaments, it was also called '''chapelet'''. Bandelet, any little band or flat moulding, which crowns a Doric Architrave . It is also masonry, carrying the roof of a cathedral or church and masked or hidden behind the Balustrade . Beak, a little fillet left on the edge of a . Bulwark, a Barricade of Beams and Soil used in 15th and 16th Century Fortification s designed to mount Artillery . On board Ship s the term is used of the Woodwork running round the ship above the level of the Deck . Figuratively it means anything serving as a defense. Baluster a small moulded shaft, square or circular, in stone or wood, sometimes metal, supporting the coping of a parapet or the handrail of a staircase. Cable molding, is the term given to a convex molding carved in imitation of a rope or cord, and used to decorate the moldings of the Romanesque style in England, France and Spain. The word cabling by itself indicates a convex circular molding sunk in the concave fluting of a classic column, and rising about one-third of the height of the shaft. Cancellus, '''Cancelli''' in plural, in architecture, is the term gir railing, especially the~ screen dividing y employed to divide off portions of the courts of law. Cauliculus, in architecture, is the stalks (eight in number) with two les from which rise the helice Cavetto, in architecture, is the term given to a hollow concave molding sometimes employed in the place of the cymayptian and took the place of the cymatium in many of the Etruscan temples. the ancient Palaestra furnished with seats, the length of which should be a third larger than the widtom for a raised platform. In the Levant the estrade of '''Fe, in architecture, is the enclosure or chapel be a literal Formeret, is a French architectural term for the wall-rib carrying the Gablets, in architecture, are triangular terminations to buttresses, much in use in the Early English and Decorated Periods , after which the buttresses generally terminated in pinnacles. The Early English gablets are generally plain, and very sharp in pitch. In the Decorated period they are often enriched with panelling and crockets. They are sometimes finished with small crosses, but of tener with finials. Garretting, properly '''Galletting''', is a term in architecture for the process in which the gallets or small splinters of stone are inserted in the joints of coarse masonry to protect the mortar joints; they are stuck in while the mortar is wet. Godroon or '''Gadroon''', in architecture, is an ornamental band with the appearance of beading or reeding, especially frequent in silverwork and molding. It comes from the loneers to describe the raised convex decorations under the bowl of stone or terracotta vases. The gof-way up the bowl. Keel-molding, in architecture, is a round on which there is a small fillet, somewhat like the keel of a ship. It is common in the Early English and Decorated styles. Lacunar, is the hollow, a blank, hiatus or gap. The panels or coffers of a ceiling are by Vitruvius called lacunaria. Maksoora, is the term in Islamic architecture given to the sanctuary or praying-chamber in a mosque, which was sometimes enclosed with a screen of lattice-work; the word is occasionally used for a similar enclosure round a tomb. Modillion, in architecture, is the enriched block or horizontal bracket generally found tinder the cornice and above the bedmold of the Corinthian entablature. It is probably so cause of its arrangement in regulated distances. Monotriglyph, in architecture, is the interval of the intercolumniation of the Boric column, whd width to the roadway, up which chariosacrifice ascended. Mutule, in architecture, is the rectangular block under the soffit of the cornice of the Greek Doric temple, which is studded with guttae. It is supposed to represent the piece of timber through which the wooden pegs were driven in order to hold the rafter in position, and it follows the rake of the roof. In the Roman Donef the modillion in the Corinthian cornice. Oillets, is an architectural term given to the ar me term is applied to the small circles inserted in the tracery-head of the windows of the Decorated and Perpendicular periods, sometimes varied with trefoils and quatrefoils. Orthostatae, is the term in Greek a three of the horizontal courses which constitute the inner part of the wall. Orthostyle, in architecture, is a range of columns placed in a straight row, as for instance those of the portico or flanks of a classic temple. '''Parcl nd is the term applied to a temple or other structure where the co s from the walls of the naos or cella. Almost all the Greek temples were peripteral, whether Doric, Ionic, or Corinthian. Planceer or '''Planchier''', in architecture, i Poppy heads, in architecture, is a term given to the finials or other ornaments which terminate the tops of bench ends, either to pews or stalls. They are sometimes small human heads, sometimes richly nd and chamfered. The term is probably derived from the French poupee, doll, puppet, used also 'Portico''', A series columns or arches in front of a building, generally as a covered walkway. uarters in framing. Pseudo-peripteral, in architecture, is a temple in which the columns surrounding the naos have had walls built between them, so that they become engaged columns, as in the great temple at Agrigentum the portico only having isolated columns. '''Pycnostyle s was equal to 11/2 diameters. Rear vault, in architecture, is the vault of the internal hood of a doorway or window to which a splay has been given on the reveal; sometimes the vaulting surface is terminated by a small rib known as the scoinson rib, and a further development is given by angle shafts carrying this rib, known as scoinson shafts. Sommer or ''' ported on two storey posts and open below, it is called a bress or breast-summer. Systyle, in architecture, is a term meaning having columns rather thickly setan intercolumniation to which two diameters are assigned. REFERENCES # |