A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 424
rnaments ofdiftcrent kinds arc madein tlie vicinity of Najdes, from lava of many LAVATORY elifferent colours; and gas burners are fittedwith tips of lava in the United States and else-where. A system of outdoor painted decora-tion is entitled Lava Painting, or Painting uponLava, and it appears that… … S. Alkxis, Rome. ■lliu (Ui-oratlon In mosaic U of the general character of Cosnintl LAVATOIRB. Formerly, in an ecclesiasti-cal establislimcnt, a trougli or bath for washingtlie bodies of the dead. The usual form ap-pears to have l)cen that of a stone slab, liol-lowed out to tlic depth of a few…
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