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Title: Architecture in England, France, Germany, and North America

Description: Terms

Total Flash Cards: 15

Created: 05/18/2009 07:01:55

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Appartements
 Definition
A suite of rooms (French).
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Cenotaph
 Definition
A monument erected in memory of someone who is not interred within it.
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Coquille
 Definition
A seashell-like organic form.
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Corps de Logis
 Definition
The main, freestanding unit in a French building complex. It contains the principal rooms, state apartments, and an entry and is usually flanked by lower secondary wings.
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Hammerbeam
 Definition
A bracketed cantilevered beam used as support for timber roof truss.
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Hôtels
Definition
A French urban domestic building.
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Lunette
 Definition
The semi-circular or crescent-shaped projection of a window opening into a vaulted ceiling. Lunettes can either be windows or decorated areas at the end of a barrel vault.
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Orangery
 Definition
A building used to protect ornamental shrubs and trees in cold weather.
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Ordonnance
 Definition
Correct relationship of parts to one another and to the whole in 18th century French architectural theory.
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Pendant Vaulting
 Definition
Vaults with suspended, decorative elements hanging from their ribs.
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Porte – cochère
Definition
A projecting canopy or carriage porch.
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Newel
 Definition
The center post around which a circular stair winds or a straight stair turns.
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Serliana
 Definition
A central arched opening with lower trabeated (having horizontal beams) openings to each side. Also sometimes called a Palladian or Serlian motif.
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Stereotomy
 Definition
The art of carving stone in complex, three-dimensional forms.
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Rocaille
 Definition
18th century scroll ornament based upon water-worn elements such as rocks and seashells.