A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 25
chwork, 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 say. In the revived classicstyles it is considered essential that the… … ACCOUPLKMKNT IK Kyr.AOKn Columns; Hotel dAssezat,Toulouse, France. (See Coupled Columns, under Column; Gemi-nate ; Grouped.) (Cut, cols. 13, U.) —K. S.ACHIEVEMENT. In heraldry, a completedisplay of armorial bearings; as, the escutcheon11 ACOUSTICS with its accompanying crest, motto or mottoes, and…
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