A dictionary of the architecture and archaeology of the middle ages : including words used by ancient and modern authors in treating of architectural and other antiquities, also, biographical notices of ancient architects (1883)
Britton, John, 1771-1857, Le Keux, John, 1783-1846, Godwin, George, 1813-1888 · London : Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster Row; and the Author, Burton Street · leaf 340
., a protuberance, or swelling (roso;, Gr.,a rope); a bold convex moulding occurring inthe bases of columns. It is larger than the astra-gal, and nearly corresponds with the boltel ofPointed architecture. (See Astragal, and Bow-tell.) Touch-stone, a black, smooth stone, or marble;so called from its… … J.Lv Kna Ir. L.nui^m . ruM,*f,.\t /-I ./ HHtWn.Juh /!fA^. tow] ARCHITECTURAL DICTIONARY. 233 and seventeenth centuries for tombs. Henry theSevenths will directed that his tomb should bemade of stone called touche. {Brayley andNeales Westm. Abbey, vol. i. p. 7.) TowEK, TM^eig, Gr., turris, Lat.,…
