A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 255
n-.sertions of coloured stucco, generally in imitationof marbles, the whole being rubbed and finelypolished. SCALA CORDONATA, or A CORDONI.A ramp or inclined ]jlane formed into jjavedsteps from 18 inches to 3 feet tread, with only410 SCALE 1 to 4 inches rise, caoli step being thus… … SCALE. A. A straight line divided intofeet and inches, or metres and centimetres, orthe like, according to a definite and stated pro-portion to reality, as one forty-eighth (or fourfeet to one inch), one one-thousandth, etc.Drawings of all kinds when made by mathe-matical instruments (see Drawing)…
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