A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 403
- CORINTHIAN ORDER C. In British usage, refractory hunjis inchalk, or in lime made from chalk. 1). A continuous cylindrical mass which iscut out of the strata of earth and rock in bor-ing, and which is retained by the hollow shaftof the drill. Such cores are preserved asrecords of the material… … Corinthian Capital, apparently intended for the Tholos xt Epidaurus; c. .JOO b.c. out. Thus, in particular it signifies: (1) therough masonry of a iiillar or column to befinished by a sheathing or plastering of finermaterial ; (2) the rough brickwork or masonryof a plaster cornice to be finished in…
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