† fractablen.
Architecture. Obsolete.
(See quot. 1862 for fractabling n. at Derivatives.)
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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 451/2 Of the outsides of an House..are..the Fractables and Corbells.
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fractabling n.
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1862 Dict. Arch. (Arch. Publ. Soc.) Fractable, or Fract Table; Fractabling at Liverpool. A term used, in the middle ages, for the crest table or coping running up and down the gables of a building.
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