Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In architecture, an astragal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) A molding generally placed under the echinus or quarter round of capitals in the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders of architecture.
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- noun architecture A
moulding generally placed under theechinus or quarter round ofcapitals in theDoric ,Ionic , andCorinthian orders of architecture.
Etymologies
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French fusarolle, from Italian fusaruolo, from fuso spindle, shaft of a column. See fusee a conical wheel.
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Examples
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Having meanwhile given his attention to architecture, he began the first cloister of the Monastery of Cestello, and executed that part of it that is seen to be of the Ionic Order; placing capitals on the columns with volutes curving downwards to the collarino, where the shaft of the column ends, and making, below the ovoli and the fusarole, a frieze, one-third in height of the diameter of the column.
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo Giorgio Vasari 1542
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