A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1905)
Parker, John Henry, · J. Parker and Co., · leaf 265
was pro-bably the course of stoneweathered, or sloped, on thetop, placed over a continuousset-off in a wall. Soffit, a ceiling: the word isseldom used except in refer-ence to the subordinate partsand members of buildings, suchas staircases,entablatures, arch-ways, cornices, &c, the undersides… … X. Skew,
