History of architecture, from the earliest times; its present condition in Europe and the United States; with a biography of eminent architects, and a glossary of architectural terms (1848)
Tuthill, Louisa C. (Louisa Caroline), 1798-1879 · Philadelphia, Lindsay and Blakiston · leaf 474
Oriel. 400 A GLOSSARY … Pendant. Pediment. The triangular member of a building, which surmountsa portico; an ornament of a triangular form finishing the frontof a building, the top of windows, doors, &c. In a pediment, anentablature, conformed to the order of the building, encloses aspace called the tympanum. Pendant.…
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