A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 164
(See also Quirk Moulding, un-der Moulding.) QUOIN. A. One stone helping to form thecorner of a wall of masonry, especially when ac-centuated by a ditterence in the surface treat-250 RABBET Hunt of the stones forming the corner from thatof the rest of the wall mass ; one of the stonesforming such a… … Quoixs OF Cut 8tone kurmino the Angle of aW.\LL OF Sjialler JVIatekials. eral surface of the masonry so as to form a con-trast with it and give an ajipearance of more orless rugged strength to the angles, corners, orreveals so treated. RABBET. A continuous small recess, gener-ally understood as…
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