| 单词 | dripstone |
| 释义 | dripstone (once / 135855 pages) n WORD FAMILY dripstone: dripstones USAGE EXAMPLESThese objects gained, the architects did not, apparently, enquire what the lesser minds, who carved the boss or dripstone, considered appropriate ornament. Wildridge, T. Tindall, The Grotesque in Church Art(2012) It will be seen that the dripstones of the arches and windows terminate in small sculptured heads: a usual arrangement at this period. Clifton, A. B., Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Ch...(2011) Look abroad into the landscape and see if you can discover any one so bent and fragmentary as that of this strange windlass-looking dripstone. Ruskin, John, The Seven Lamps of Architecture(2011) 1n the form of calcium carbonate found in stalactites and stalagmites Hyper calcium carbonate a salt found in nature as chalk or calcite or aragonite or limestone 2n a protective drip that is made of stone Syn|Hyper hoodmold, hoodmould drip, drip mold, drip mould (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway) |
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