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An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c., with their derivations (1883)

Mollett, John W. (John William) · London, S. Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington · leaf 243

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Ogee Arch or Contrasted Arch or Mould-ing, Arch. An arch or moulding described … Fig. 499. Device of the Ottusciti Academy. by means of four centres, so as to be alter-nately concave and convex. It was fre-quently employed in fifteenth-century monu-ments, and its constant recurrence in the laterGothic or flamboyant architecture has givenrise to its French name of ogival. Ogham.…

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