A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 24
iv(]lt ur hood moulding of an arch or of the mouldings of an apparent arch, or of a form resembling an arch, as in late Gothic work; 9 ACCOUPLEMBNT consisting of a rev(Mse Iurve tangent on citherside to the curves of the arch, or its mouldings,and rising to a finial or otiier ornament above.(Sec… … Accolade. A three-centrtd .iroli with rt-vorsfd curve .ind finial. Frenchwork, l.>th century. pairs of columns form together a colonnade, asin the celebrated example of the ctist front ofthe Louvre. It was almost unknown to Greekor Greco-Roman builders, so far as modern re-search enables us to…
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