A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1879)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford ; London : J. Parker · leaf 337
windows.In many cases, instead of a small win-dow of this description, the large windowover the place which it would occupyis elongated, and the additional portionat the bottom is parted off by a transom.No example of these windows has beennoticed of a date prior to the Early… … Wicket, a small door formedin a larger one, to admit of in-gress and egress, without open-ing the whole. Wind-beam, a cross-beam usedin the principals of many ancientroofs, occupying the situation of the collar in modern king-postroofs. See Boof. Wings of a moulding. SeeFillet. Withdrawing - room.…
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