Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A ground plan of a building.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art of tracing ground-plans; the representation of a ground-plot, or of the site of an object on a horizontal plane.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Drawing) A horizontal section of a building or other object, showing its true dimensions according to a geometric scale; a ground plan; a map; also, the art of making such plans.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The ground plan of a building
- noun the art of constructing ground plans
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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From Egypt and Palestine the ichnography spread far and wide.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Already a ground-plan, or ichnography, has been laid down of the future colonial empire.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various
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A few years since, comparatively speaking, people only knew their way from York to London, much less the objects on the road -- now, by the economy of guide books they may know every good inn in France, and carry the _ichnography_ of the kingdom in their coat pocket.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 375, June 13, 1829 Various
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Bishop Lyttelton used to plague me to death about barrows, and tumuli, and Roman camps, and all those bumps in the ground that do not amount to a most imperfect ichnography; but, in good truth, I am content with all arts when perfected, nor inquire how ingeniously people contrive to do without them -- and I care still less for remains of art that retain no vestiges of art.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757
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