A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 521
hitecture, any opeiungthrough, or depression at the top of, a wall orparapet for discharging missiles ; as a loophole,crenelle, or the like, because usually so sjilayed.EMPLECTON ; -UM. A kind of masonryused by the KmiKins and described by Pliny andVitruvius as having the faces worked and thecore… … ENGACED COLUMN rimivh of S. Hiuliano. at Venice ;orilcr decorating tlie doorway and a a smallerlarger one raised on a liigh continuous i)iidiuui. The statueis the work oi Jacopo Hansovino. ENAMEL ENGINEERING ENAMEL. A \;iriety of glass whicli is usedespucially tor ilecorative work ; either inlaid…
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