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A glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture / [Anon].

  • John Henry Parker
Date:
1840
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Credit: A glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    they differed in height, but all were used with a footstool called scabellum, and this footstool was made with one or more steps, as required to suit the height of the Bisellius. Brockine-coursg, the plain course of stone which surmounts the cornice at the top of a Greek or Roman building: also a course of stone or brick forming a projecting line without mouldings at the base of a building. Pe meer Bogen, Ger. See Arch. Neue Boisertn, F’r., Woodwork. See Wainscot and Screen. Bonvers, Bonp-stonss, Binpine-stonss, Turoucu-stonss, [ Ger. Binde-fteine,] are used where rough stone walls are bound with cut stone, and are inserted at intervals for the purpose of binding the facing to the backing, or rough stone wall behind it. See Perpent-stone. Boss [Lat. Nodus, #7. Bosse, Bossette, Ztal. Gobba, Ger. Suel,], an ornament placed at the intersection of the ribs or groins in vaulted or in flat roofs: it is frequently richly sculptured with armorial bearings, or other devices. Any round projecting ball or knob of foliage &c. is also called a Boss, whether uncon- nected with any thing else, or stopping the end of a label or other moulding. In the Perpen- dicular style, especially in the time of Henry VII. and VIII., the place of the boss in groined roofs is frequently supplied by a pendant). Bossacr, /’7”., rusticated work. See Rustic. Bouttin, Fr., the ovolo or quarter-round moulding. Bovauet, F’r., a term adopted from the French for a finial. Boutorr, Fr. See Buttress. Bow, that part of a building which projects in a semi-. circular form. Bow-winpow. See Bay-window. h See Plate 13;
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