A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1905)
Parker, John Henry, · J. Parker and Co., · leaf 190
er part more es-pecially received the name of Oriole.Thus any projecting portion of aroom, or even of a building, wascalled an Oriole, such as a pent-house, or such as a closet, bower, orprivate chamber, an upper story, ora gallery, whether it was used forprayer or not; and the term becamemore… … Ovolo (Ital.), a con-vex moulding muchused in Classical archi-tecture ; in the Banianexamples it is usuallyan exact quarter of acircle, but in the Gre-cian it is natter, and ismost commonly quirkedat the top : in middle-age architecture it isnot extensively em-ployed ; it is seldomfound in any but…
