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fascia|ˈfæʃɪə, ˈfeɪʃ(ɪ)ə| Pl. fasciæ. In architectural uses also -as. Forms: 7 fasia, facea, 8 facio, -tio, 9 facia (with English plural), 6– fascia. [a. L. fascia in senses 1 and 2.] †1. in Lat. sense: A band, fillet. Obs.
1587T. Underdown tr. Heliodorus 85 Cariclia tied a part of her fascia that was foule, about her head. 1594Drayton Ideas Wks. (1748) 399 Poor rogue [Cupid] go pawn thy fascia and thy bow. 1606B. Jonson Hymenæi Wks. (Rtldg.) 554/2 A Veile..bound with a Fascia of severall coloured silkes. 2. Archit. a. Any long flat surface of wood, stone or marble, esp. in the Doric order, the band which divides the architrave, and in the Ionic and Corinthian orders, each of the three surfaces into which the architrave is divided. (Hence the use explained under facia.)
1563Shute Archit. D ij a, The lowest Fascia..the second Fascia..the third Fascia. 1663Gerbier Counsel (1664) 71 Beades in the Fasia, cut at round. 1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 13 A broad Plinth, or Fatio. 1766Entick London IV. 81 The present edifice [is] built partly with brick, and stone faceas. 1769De Foe Tour Gt. Brit. I. 169 This Work..is crowned with a Facia and Torus of wrought Stone. 1827G. Higgins Celtic Druids Introd. p. 46 One [Round Tower] at Ardmore has fasciæ at the several stories, which all the rest..seem to want. 1881F. Young Every man his own Mechanic §1354 To the ends of the rafters a facia should be nailed. 1909H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay i. iii. 100 The bright little shop still saying ‘Ponderevo’ with all the emphasis of its fascia. 1963Gloss. Build. Terms (B.S.I.) 23 Fascia, a long and relatively narrow upright face at eaves or cornice or over a shop front. 1971Guardian 21 July 11/5 In worn-out Upper Street..gaudy fascias brighten up derelict façades. †b. A ceiling coved on two opposite sides only.
1613–39I. Jones in Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) I. 39 A Fascia is the same as a Conca, and terminates to the wall. 1715Ibid. (1721) I. 83 The Hall is arch'd with a Fascia. 3. Anat. a. A thin sheath of fibrous tissue investing a muscle or some special tissue or organ; an aponeurosis.
1788H. Watson in Med. Commun. II. 268 Tendinous expansions, or Fasciæ..support the muscles. 1804Abernethy Surg. Obs. 30 A tumour formed apparently beneath the fascia of his thigh. 1807Morris & Kendrick Edinb. Med. & Physical Dict. II, Fascia lata, a strong tendinous expansion..to surround the muscles of the thigh. 1840G. Ellis Anat. 413 The palmar fascia and the transverse ligament of the metacarpal bones. 1854Owen Skel. & Teeth (1855) 3 The temporal fascia in the turtle. 1876Duhring Dis. Skin 24 The superficial fascia of muscles. 1961Lancet 5 Aug. 318/1 Connective tissue (fascia lata). 1967G. M. Wyburn et al. Conc. Anat. vi. 156 The fascia lata is attached above to the pelvis and inguinal ligament and below to the condyles round the knee joint. b. The substance of which this is composed.
1881Mivart Cat 133 This muscle is only covered by skin and fascia. 4. Any object, or collection of objects, that gives the appearance of a band or stripe. a. Astron. The belt of a planet. b. Conchol. A row of perforations. c. Bot., Zool., and Ornith. A band of colour. d. Her. = fesse. a.1704J. Harris Lex. Techn., Fasciæ, in the Planet Mars, are certain Rows of Spots, parallel to the Equator of that Planet, which looks like Swathes or Fillets wound round about his Body. 1825W. Hamilton Hand-bk. Terms Art & Sc., Fasciæ, the belts seen on the discs of the superior planets. b.1877Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. ix. 571 The ambulacra..are not arranged in fasciæ. c.1752Sir J. Hill Hist. Anim. 152 There are three brown fasciæ running over it of considerable breadth. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (1828) III. xxxii. 302 The secondary wings are black with an orange fascia near the posterior margin. 1839Jardine Brit. Birds II. 80 An ill-defined ochraceous fascia across the vent. d.1880Encycl. Brit. XI. 694/2 The Fess, fesse, fascia, is a strip placed horizontally across the middle of the field. 5. attrib. (in sense 2 and in the sense of facia 2), as fascia-board, fascia-panel.
1924H. J. Butler Motor Bodywork 482/2 Fascia boards. 1925W. Deeping Sorrell & Son i. 9 Painted in white letters on a black fascia-board ‘John Verity—Dealer in Antiques’. 1957‘N. Shute’ On Beach i. 21 He could hardly remember what the fascia panel looked like or on which side the seat adjustment lever lay. |