A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1905)
Parker, John Henry, · J. Parker and Co., · leaf 121
of a balustre or shaft ofa column. Entebclose, the passage be-tween two rooms in a house. Ewtbesol (Fr.), same as Me-jzanine. See Story, ErrsTT.r, side of an altar. Seenote under Altar. Epistylium, the Architrave. Bfitithydes, upper memberof the cornice of an entabla-ture. Escape, terra used… … pendcd, and to the plate which surrounds the keyhole:these are made of various shapes,and are sometimes highly orna-mented : the escutcheons of door-handles are sometimes raised inthe centre like a boss, and someof these appear to be of Decoratedor Early English date. [See Iron-work.] (8.) The boss…
