Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A squared block of building stone.
- noun Masonry of such stones.
- noun A thin, dressed rectangle of stone for facing walls.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
ashler .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Hewn or squared stone; also, masonry made of squared or hewn stone.
- noun In the United States especially, a thin facing of squared and dressed stone upon a wall of rubble or brick.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun architecture A large
cuboid stone ;masonry making use of such stone blocks. - noun A hurling
stone used inwarfare .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a rectangular block of hewn stone used for building purposes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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So he abode in prison, and when they brought out the prisoners, to cut ashlar from the quarries they took Sa’id with them, and he wrought with the rest.
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In early times the walls were very much thicker, composed of hewn stone, making a kind of casing at each side, called ashlar, the interval being filled with rubble masonry cemented with lime and loam.
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Finally, still other portions of this same Mycenaean wall show on the outside a near approach to what is called ashlar masonry, in which the blocks are rectangular and laid in even horizontal courses.
A History of Greek Art Frank Bigelow Tarbell 1886
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Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal The Niven House has stucco exterior scored to resemble ashlar block and a marble, checkerboard-patterned porch, which is original to the home.
Tuscany on the Hudson Maya Pope-Chappell 2011
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The Niven House has stucco exterior scored to resemble ashlar block and a marble, checkerboard-patterned porch, which is original to the home.
A Touch of Tuscany Revived in Newburgh Maya Pope-Chappell 2011
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Scrutinize those buildings, touch those surfaces and you'll discover a disconcerting number of restored façades, reassembled colonnades and a positive glorying in what the Italians call "feigned" materials: simulated marble, cleverly disguised concrete and a cunning assortment of ashlar, or thin stone slabs applied to resemble weighty blocks.
The Heirloom City Dan Hofstadter 2011
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Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal The Niven House has stucco exterior scored to resemble ashlar block and a marble, checkerboard-patterned porch, which is original to the home.
Tuscany on the Hudson Maya Pope-Chappell 2011
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The Niven House has stucco exterior scored to resemble ashlar block and a marble, checkerboard-patterned porch, which is original to the home.
A Touch of Tuscany Revived in Newburgh Maya Pope-Chappell 2011
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The Niven House has stucco exterior scored to resemble ashlar block and a marble, checkerboard-patterned porch, which is original to the home.
A Touch of Tuscany Revived in Newburgh Maya Pope-Chappell 2011
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Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal The Niven House has stucco exterior scored to resemble ashlar block and a marble, checkerboard-patterned porch, which is original to the home.
Tuscany on the Hudson Maya Pope-Chappell 2011
knitandpurl commented on the word ashlar
"From the property angle, the deal is a good one, the area is decent, the façade is of ashlar, the staircase is OK despite the agedness of the lift, and the woman is now coming to inspect in greater detail the condition of the flat itself, to draw up a more detailed plan of the accommodation with, for instance, thicker lines to distinguish structural walls from partitions and arrowheaded semicircles to show which way the doors open, and to decide on the work needed, to make a preliminary costing for the complete refurbishment: the partition wall between the toilet and the boxroom to be knocked down, allowing the installation of a bathroom with a slipper-bath and WC; the kitchen tiles to be renewed; a wall-mounted gas-fired boiler (giving both central heating and hot water) to replace the old coal-fired boiler; the woodblock floor with its zigzag moulding to be lifted and replaced by a layer of cement, a felt underlay, and a fitted carpet."
-- Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec, translated by David Bellos, p 5
June 1, 2008
manilamac commented on the word ashlar
From somewhere I have an impression of this word referring to dressed stone that is left undressed on the surface that’s going to show. If that’s true, it would be the only single-word description of that rather common style. The definition of “ashler” hints at this property but neither it nor “ashlar” spell it out.
September 22, 2009
qms commented on the word ashlar
The word evokes "mysterious lascar"
Or dangers that lurk in the casbah.
So idle mind plays
On a poolside chaise
Adoze by the warm flags of ashlar.
June 6, 2015