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The Decorator's assistant (1847)

[London : W. Gibbs] · leaf 597

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Egyptian columns. LuPFER Boarding. Boards nailed on thesides of buildings or lanterns, or across apertures,arranged and fixed so as to admit air, but toexclude rain. Lcnette. Cylindric, cylindroidic, or sphericalapertures in ceilings, of the same form as the upper lights in the nave of St. Pauls… … zM_.. Lysis. A kind of plinth, or step, above the cor-nice of the podium of ancient temples, which sur-rounds or embraces the stylobate, as may beobserved in the temple of Fortuna Virilis. Lion. (In antique painting and sculpture.)The strongest and most magnanimous of four-footed beasts. The lion…

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