Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York: John Wiley · leaf 300
are called byarchitects chamfers or beads ; but I think lead a bad word for acontinuous moulding, and the proper sense of the word chamfer DECORATION. XXII. THE ANGLE, 267 is fixed by Spenser as descriptive not merely of truncation, butof trench or furrow :— Tho gin you, fond flies, the cold to… … So I shall call the above mouldings beaded chamfers, whenthere is any chance of confusion with the plain chamfer, a or 5,of Fig. LII.: and when there is no such chance, I shall use theword chamfer only. § xi. Of those above given, h is the constant chamfer of Venice, and a of Yerona : a being the…
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