A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 43
but used in such phrasesas an urthnstyle plan, or the like. OSSATURE. In French, the skeleton orframework of any structure ; hence, in English;38 OSSUARY such a framework wlieu of a more elaboratekind, as tlie steel cage construction of modembuildings. OSSUARY. A place for the deposit… … OVERDOOR P.iNEL Modern Parisian Work, in Louis XIV.Style. OSTENSORE, LUCIANO. (See Lucianoda Laiiraiia.) OUBLIETTE. In niedia-val times, a pit orshaft constructed or excavated in the masonryor foundation of a castle, or similar building,and in which prisoners were confined as in themost hopeless…
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