A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 108
liat ill wliirli tiie sacred vessels are rleansed.Mallet, DAniifoloijie lleliyieiine, 2 vols., Paris, — c. c. PIS£. A Iniildiiij; nuxteriul (see Pis(5 Ma-sonry, \inder Masonry.) This jnaterial is much used in i)arts of Cen-tral and South America. A kind of \mi workwas used by some American Indians,… … Piscina; In Pwei.i.ing-House at Oakham, Rut-landshire; 13th Century. many ruins discloses a method of ramnnng theclay between tWO lines of wicker work boundtogether by cross sticks. (See Cajon; ClayWalling; Tapia.)—F. S. D. PISON : architect. Pison, MuUre dceuvre, constructed, at theclose of the…
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