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‖ scotia Arch.|ˈskəʊʃɪə|
[L. scotia (Vitruvius), a. Gr. σκοτία, f. σκότος darkness (so called from the dark shadow within the cavity); cf. F. scotie.]
A hollow moulding. = casement 1.
1563Shute Archit. 11 The nethermost Trochilus or Scotia. 1664Evelyn tr. Freart's Archit. 125 Our Workmen retain the antient Scotia..but more vulgarly they call it the Casement. 1789Smyth tr. Aldrich's Archit. (1818) 90 Other particles of an order are hollow, the common name to which is scotia. a1878Sir G. Scott Lect. Archit. (1879) I. 152 In England another kind of base is frequent, in which a bead is substituted for the scotia. |