about the height of a chair-back. Its presentuse is to protect the stucco-work or paper ofthe walls, but originally it was used as an ar-chitectural decoration to a room. The con-struction requires care in joining the deals ofthe dado, which are ploughed and tongued,keyed transversely at their… … Fig. 1. Fig. 2. There is also a bearing of a bend called doubledancette (fig. 2). Thus, he beareth azure, abend double dancette argent. Dentel (in architecture), an ornament in No. 4<.—Vol. II. cornices bearing some resemblance to teeth;particularly in the Ionic and Corinthianorders. Vitruvius…
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