out, and carved into heads, faces, lions*heads, &c. Corinthian Order, the third Grecian orderof architecture, said by some to be imitative ofthe delicacy of shape and slenderness of pro a house set up as they ought to stand; it con-tains the fifth part of the field, and is expressedas above.… … drawn through the chief point. Thus the fieldis gules, a chief argent. He beareth gules a chief crenelle. Contrast (in architecture), the avoiding ofthe representation of the same thing in orderto please by variety. Cordon, the edge of a stone in the exteriorof an edifice.Core, the interior of a…
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