crowning. They are chiefly employed inElizabethan architecture. Band (in architecture), any broad and notvery deep flat member or moulding. Also theset of mouldings encircling the centre of thepillar in early English edifices. A tablet orstring course around a tower, &c.; as we say,a band of… … size, and only capable of holding one or twoarchers. Bay-Window, a window placed in the bowof a building.
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