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Sloan's constructive architecture : a guide to the practical builder and mechanic (1859)

Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884 · Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co. · leaf 282

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the head ; F F F the returnof the wash-board moulding at the back of the architrave, of which, in its continuation, it formsa part; and G its face as it butts to the architrave. II denotes the face of the surbase andthe manner in which its scotia returns up and around the architrave, forming a part… … GLOSSARY. 14c a. Quatrefoil; (in Gothic architecture.)—An ornament in tracery, consisting of four segments of circles, or cusps within a circle.Quirk-Mouldings.—The convex part of Grecian mouldings, forming, where they recede at the top, a reenticent angle with the surface which covers the…

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