noun
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the form of calcium carbonate existing in stalactites or stalagmites
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Also called: label, hood mould. architect a drip made of stone
Etymology
Origin of dripstone
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The dripstone sections of their capitals are therefore unnecessary and ridiculous.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by John Ruskin
These objects gained, the architects did not, apparently, enquire what the lesser minds, who carved the boss or dripstone, considered appropriate ornament.
From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge
In architecture a “hood-mould” is a projecting moulding carried outside the arch of a door or window; it is weathered underneath, and when continued horizontally is better known as a dripstone.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
So far of the true cornice: we have still to determine the form of the dripstone.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by John Ruskin
The church here has the Pelham buckle as a dripstone.
From Seaward Sussex The South Downs from End to End by Edric Holmes
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