Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A horizontal band or molding set in the face of a building as a design element.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In architecture, a narrow molding or a projecting course continued horizontally along the face of a building, frequently under windows. It is sometimes merely a flat band, more often molded, and sometimes richly carved.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Arch.) A horizontal band in a building, forming a part of the design, whether molded, projecting, or carved, or in any way distinguished from the rest of the work.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun architecture A thin projecting course of brickwork or stone that runs horizontally around a building, typically to emphasize the junction between floors.

Etymologies

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string +‎ course

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  • "It didn't look like a difficult task, since the back of each terrace was studded with all kinds of flues, hooks, windowsills, gas pipes, stringcourses, planks of wood, missing bricks, and irregular patches."

    A Plague of Bogles by Catherine Jinks, p 270 of the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt hardcover edition

    April 13, 2016