stringcourse

[string-kawrs, -kohrs]

noun

Architecture.

1. a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.

Word History and Origins

Origin of stringcourse¹

First recorded in 1815–25; string + course

Example Sentences

Oh, go soak your stringcourse, WPA.

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F. Fecit Anno Gratiæ MCCCCL'—occupies every arch and stringcourse of the architecture, and whose coat-of-arms and portrait in medallion, with his cipher and his emblems of an elephant and a rose, are wrought in every piece of sculptured work throughout the building, seems so to fill this house of prayer that there is no room left for God.

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Below these, and resting upon the long stringcourse that runs above the great arches, are sets of seven trefoil-headed niches, with a half-niche at each end.

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Below the triforium a stringcourse of chevrons runs all along.

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In some cases this tracery is placed just below the Norman stringcourse, but in others the stringcourse has been removed to make room for it.

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