A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 428
andset curve. (See Spline.) CUSHION. A rounded projection of a partnot couuuouly of that form ; as in later rla.ssic,a frieze or part of a frieze projecting in a convexcurve, (((iiiipare Pulvination.) CUSHION CAPITAL. A type of capitalcommon in Isorman and Roniane.s(|ue work,tenth to thirteenth… … CUT SPLAY carved, oftener jjlain. In later examples thelower part is more tapering, and divided intofour or even more clustered conical ma.sses.They appear to have been evolved out of theconditions and limitations of the crude earlywork. In early Christian and Byzantine archi-tecture certain heavy…
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