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In the mean time, the team's senior stone carver, Mustafa Sir, used his talent on the profiles of a completely new architrave block, whose fasciae (stepped subdivisions) were separated by plain astragals (round profiles).

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Three of these parts constitute the torus at the top, and the other four are to be divided equally, one part constituting the upper trochilus with its astragals and overhang, the other left for the lower trochilus.

The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio

Let three of these compose the first fascia with its astragal, four the second, and five the third, the fasciae with their astragals running side by side all round.

The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio

Ornamental fillets, astragals, and moldings, borrowed from architecture, increased the illusion of a sectional piece.

Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America Albert Manucy

The astragals must be one eighth of the trochilus.

The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio

Cabled or rudented columns are such as have their flutings filled with cables or astragals to about the third of the height.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

_ It was played with five _astragals_ -- knuckle-bones, pebbles, or little balls -- which were thrown up into the air, and then attempted to be caught when falling on the back of the hand.

An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864

_ A flue conducts heat through the compartments of the obelisks; and, if you look up, you may observe that those gilt roses, between the astragals in the cornice, are prominent from it half a span.

Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Walter Savage Landor 1819

The cornice and astragals form a frieze, in which military emblems and symbols of sacrifice are intermingled.

The Idler in France Marguerite Blessington 1819

"It was a beautiful thing really, Ma'am, measuring eighteen by twenty-four feet, and made up of three hundred and fifty pieces of glass set in metal astragals, so cleverly worked into the shadows that the whole affair appeared like one piece.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various