A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 617
air only tlirough doorways of greater orsmaller dimensions, tlie sitting rooms of differ-ent kinds having high and wide ojienings, withlittle hut curtains and low screens to separatethem from the court or garden. The sleepingrooms (see Cubiculum ; House) were very small,and had beside-s the door of… … Window, Fig. 1: Ix the Palace at Chaqqa orShakka; 3d Century a.d. and left open in warm weather; but nowhereis a window of the usual modern sort known toexist. The Romans, moreover, used glass forwindows but rarely, though it is known thatthey understood the glazing of sash. ■WINDOW, PART I. Tlie…
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