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| A suite of rooms (French). |
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| A monument erected in memory of someone who is not interred within it. |
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| A seashell-like organic form. |
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| 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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| A bracketed cantilevered beam used as support for timber roof truss. |
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| A French urban domestic building. |
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| 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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| A building used to protect ornamental shrubs and trees in cold weather. |
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| Correct relationship of parts to one another and to the whole in 18th century French architectural theory. |
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| Vaults with suspended, decorative elements hanging from their ribs. |
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| A projecting canopy or carriage porch. |
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| The center post around which a circular stair winds or a straight stair turns. |
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| 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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| The art of carving stone in complex, three-dimensional forms. |
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| 18th century scroll ornament based upon water-worn elements such as rocks and seashells. |
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