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‖ isodomon, -mum Anc. Gr. Arch.|aɪˈsɒdəʊmən, -məm|
[Gr. ἰσόδοµον (L. isodomum), neuter adj., f. ἰσο-, iso- + δόµος layer or course in a building.]
A method of building in which blocks of equal length were laid in courses of uniform thickness, each vertical joint of a course being above the middle of a block in the course next below.
1601Holland Pliny II. 593 The Greekes haue a kinde of wall which they make of hard pebbles or flint couched euen and laid in order by line and leuell, like as we do in bricke wals: and this kind of building they call in Masonrie Isodomon. 1842–76Gwilt Archit. (ed. 7) Gloss., Isodomum, one of the methods of building walls practised by the Greeks. |