单词 | face-shaft |
释义 | > as lemmasface-shaft face-shaft n. Architecture now rare a semi-cylindrical shaft (shaft n.2 5a) attached to the face of a wall. ΚΠ 1835 R. Willis Remarks Archit. Middle Ages iv. 35 Face-shafts sustain face-arches, which have their back only united to the wall, and therefore appear as if placed on the face of it. 1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. v. 153 The outer northern porch measures, from face shaft to face shaft, 13ft. 11 in. 1921 E. B. O'Reilly How France built Cathedrals x. 518 To unify the design, flying buttresses were sprung from..the face-shafts to the octagon. < as lemmas |
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