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dromos

Architecture; General architecture

Entrance passage or avenue leading to a building, tomb or passageway. Those leading to beehive tombs are enclosed between stone walls and sometimes in-filled between successive uses of the tomb. In ...

poppyheads

Architecture; General architecture

Finials or other ornaments which terminate the tops of bench ends, either to pews or stalls. They are sometimes small human heads, sometimes richly carved images, knots of foliage or finials, and ...

architrave

Architecture; General architecture

The architrave is the lowest element of the entablature, and rests on top columns.

prostyle

Architecture; General architecture

Free standing columns that are widely spaced apart in a row. The term is often used as an adjective when referring to a portico which projects from the main structure.

estrade

Architecture; General architecture

French term for a raised platform or dais. In the Levant, the estrade of a divan is called a Sopha, from which comes our word 'sofa'.

formeret

Architecture; General architecture

French term for the wall-rib carrying the web or filling-in of a vault.

sommer

Architecture; General architecture

Girder or main "summer beam" of a floor: if supported on two storey posts and open below, also called a "bress" or "breast-summer". Often found at the centerline of the house to support one end of a ...