A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 531
workthe shafts are sometimes built with rusticatedbands, and, in a superimposition of orders, itsplace is in tlie Iwsemeut. TUSK. A bevelled shoulder on a tenon togive it additional strength, the mortise beingcut to Iorrcspiind. TWO-PAIR (atljectival term). In a Londonlodging house, belongiug to… … TYMP.iMM OF A Window ra El-Barah, Stria;.TH to 6th Century. TYMPANUM. The triangular recessedspace beneath the coping of a pediment and be-tween the raking cornice of the roof and the hori-zontal geison below. Also the slab or piece of■walling which is ii-sed to fill up the space Ije-tween an arch…
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