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.
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- noun architecture A thin projecting
course ofbrickwork orstone that runshorizontally around abuilding , typically to emphasize the junction between floors.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Beneath an elegant cornice of acanthus-leaf scrolls, the top two floors are delineated by a stringcourse of shells, tridents, and sea creatures, and a symmetrical pattern of square and circular cartouches, the latter of which depict a majestic eagle-like bird puffing out its breast and extending its wings.
Ruffled Feathers on Fifth Avenue DiGiacomo, Frank 2005
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Between the arches there rises a clustered shaft which reaches to the level of the highest points of the arches: here these shafts combine with an ornamented stringcourse which runs in a straight line along the entire front.
The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See W.D. Sweeting
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In some cases this tracery is placed just below the Norman stringcourse, but in others the stringcourse has been removed to make room for it.
The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See W.D. Sweeting
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The loftiest of the stages of this arcading has a sub-division with round arches; and the stage above the great stringcourse has round-headed trefoils so as to be in keeping with the row of similar arches in the gables; but with these two exceptions all the arches on the arcades of the tower are pointed and without cusps.
The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See W.D. Sweeting
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There was never any ambulatory round the apse outside; we can still see, from the new building, portions of a stringcourse which was external, as well as other evidences that the apse was the end of the church.
The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See W.D. Sweeting
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Below the triforium a stringcourse of chevrons runs all along.
The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See W.D. Sweeting
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Below these, and resting upon the long stringcourse that runs above the great arches, are sets of seven trefoil-headed niches, with a half-niche at each end.
The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See W.D. Sweeting
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Parts of the original external stringcourse of the apse can be seen.
The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See W.D. Sweeting
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"But ... do you think the stringcourse is really important?"
The Fountainhead Rand, Ayn 1943
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"We'll have an ornamented stringcourse," said Francon with calm, genuine authority.
The Fountainhead Rand, Ayn 1943
knitandpurl commented on the word stringcourse
"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