Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger), 1830-1903 · New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 26
architecture. GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL WORDS. Flamboyant Style.—The late Gothic architecture of France at theend of the fifteenth century, so called from the occurrence offlame-shaped forms in the tracery. Fleche.—A name adapted from the French. A slender spire, mostlyplaced on a roof; not often so… … Fig. v.—Flying Buttress. Foil.—A leaf-shaped form produced by adding cusps to the curved outline of a window head or piece of tracery.Foliatiox. —The decoration of an opening, or of tracery by means of foils ani cusps.Fosse.—The ditch cf a fortress.FRANgois I. SrvL .—^The early Renaissance…
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