A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 201
lters from the wind and from the view ofpersons outside. Some of the French dictiona-ries limit its size to 30 or 40 metres. Thesedimensions are to be associated with the im-mense ornamental grounds of France; and inEnglish use the term signifies rather a clump ofthree or four trees forming one of… … Boss: Church of Elkstone, Gloucestershire. cut away after the completion of the work. (SeeBossage.) B. A mass projecting, as in A, but intendedas a permanent feature ; thus, in Gothic archi-336 BOSS tectvire, the iiumlded sill couisc (if ;i window, orrow of wiixlows, is often tcniiiiiiited by…
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