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surbase Arch.|ˈsɜːbeɪs|
Also 8 sirbace.
[f. sur- + base n.1]
a. A border or moulding immediately above the base or lower panelling of a wainscoted room; also, = chair-rail (chair n.1 15).
1678Moxon Mech. Exerc. vi. 106 The Middle Rail hath commonly two bredths of the Margent of the Stile, viz. one breadth above the Sur-base, and the other below the Sur-base. 1744Langhorne Country Justice i. Poems (1790) 282 Where, round the hall, the oak's high surbase rears The field-day triumphs of two hundred years. 1760Phil. Trans. LI. 798 From the top of the surbase within to the pavement of the cell is 7 feet. 1791Oxf. Archd. Papers MS. Oxon. b. 26, lf. 177 b (Bodl. Libr.) Neat Chimney piece..suitable Hearthstone..with a Sirbace and Skirting. 1834M. Scott Cruise Midge xviii, The whole of the surbases and wooden work about the windows and doors were of well-polished and solid mahogany. 1871M. E. Braddon Lovels xxxii, As her severe eyes surveyed wall and ceiling, floor and surbase. 1875Encycl. Brit. II. 474/1 Surbase.., an upper base is the term applied to what, in the fittings of a room, is familiarly called the chair-rail. 1880Cassell's Fam. Mag. 112 The height of the surbase or chair-rail.
attrib.1825J. Nicholson Operative Mech. 605 Surbase-moulding.
b. A cornice or series of mouldings above the dado of a pedestal, podium, etc.
1815J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 171 Each upper portion, as surbase of pedestal, capital of column, cornice of entablature, divides into three parts. 1837Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl. I. 352/2 The cornice or surbase of the pedestal on which the statue of the Duke is placed. 1887Times (weekly ed.) 9 Dec. 15/1 The temple rests on a stylobate, having a finely moulded base and surbase.
attrib.1845Parker Gloss. Archit. (ed. 4) s.v. Pedestal, The cornice, or surbase mouldings, at the top [of a pedestal]. |