A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 169
ris. (See also Quirk Moulding, un-der Mo\dding.) QUOIN. A. One stone helping to form thecorner of a wall of masonry, especially when ac-centuated by a difference in the surface treat-260 RABBET inent of the stones fonning the corner from thatof the rest of the wall mass ; one of the stonesforming… … ^uoiNS OF CvT Stone kof.jiino the Angle ok aWall of Smaller Materials. eral surface of the masonry so as to form a con-trast with it and give an appearance of more orle.ss rugged strength to the angles, corners, orreveals so treated. RABBET. A continuous small recess, gener-ally understood as…
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