A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 68
rna-mental object of anysort; ajjplied loosely tohanging lamps and lan-terns (see also Corona),votive offerings inchurches, and the like. PENDENTIVE. ^1.A piece of masonry con-struction for filling inthe space in the re-entrant angle of twowalls, beginning with apoint or line at the bot-tom, and… … PEND.iNT, 17th Century, at Schloss Kalmar,Sweden. of a horizontal circle or a straight line, in orderthat a square or polygonal room may be coveredby a cujx/la of circular plan or having moresides than the room. The simplest and typical
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