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platband|ˈplætbænd|
[a. F. platebande (1547 in Hatz.-Darm.), f. plate fem., flat + bande band. (The French word has many senses.)]
1. Arch.
a. A flat rectangular moulding or fascia, the projection of which is less than its breadth.
b. The list or fillet between the flutings of a column.
1696Phillips (ed. 5), Platband, a square Member which terminates the Architecture of the Doric Order, and passes under the Triglyphs. 1723Chambers tr. Le Clerc's Treat. Archit. I. 105 The Plat-Band..terminating the first Story, and shewing where the second commences. Ibid. 107 'Tis usual to have Windows much less adorn'd; and..a Plat-Band around them. 1727–41Chambers Cycl., Plat-band, in architecture, is any flat, square moulding, whose height much exceeds its projecture. Ibid., Plat-bands of flutings, the lists or fillets between the flutings of columns. 1807Nichols Progr. Q. Eliz. (1823) III. 121 note, Sutton Place..furnished with a double sculptured platband of a yellowish brick earth running round it. 1854Cnt. de Warren tr. De Saulcy's Round Dead Sea II. 224 Two fillets, separated by a torus, and surmounted by an ogee and plat-band.
c. (See quots.)
(These are doubtfully English: cf. senses of F. plate-bande in Littré.)
1727–41Chambers Cycl., Plat-band of a door or window, is used for the lintel, where that is made square, or not much arched. These plat-bands are usually crossed with bars of iron, when they have a great bearing. 1828Hutton Course Math. II. 175 To point out the construction..of the plat⁓band, or ‘flat arch’, as it is sometimes called. 1842Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. V. 251/2 Straight Arch, or Plat Band, with joints converging to a common centre.
2. Hort. A narrow bed of flowers or strip of turf forming a border.
1725Bradley Fam. Dict., Plat-band, a Term used concerning a Bed of Earth which borders an Alley. 1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v. Alley, It has platbands of turf run across it from space to space. Ibid., Plat-band, in gardening, a border, or bed of flowers, along a wall, or the side of a parterre. 1839Mrs. Gore in Tait's Mag. VI. 650 To content myself with the narrow limits and formal platbands of Sancta Benedicta. |