A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 169
is. (See also Quirk Moulding, un-der Moulding.) QUOIN. ^1. One stone helping to form thecorner of a wall of masonry, esjjecially when ac-centuated by a ditterence in the surface treat-250 RABBET meiit of the stones tonuing the comer from thatof the rest of the wall mass ; one of the stonesforuiiiig… … QcoiNS OF Cut Stone FoRJiixf; the Angle of a VV.iLL OF S.MALLEK MATEKIALS. eral surface of the masonry so as to form a con-trast with it and give an appearance of more orles.s rugged strength to the angles, corners, orreveals so treated. RABBET. A contiiuious small recess, gener-ally understood as…
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