ichnography
Americannoun
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the art of drawing a ground plan or layout of a building.
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a ground plan or layout of a building; a horizontal representation of a building.
noun
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the art of drawing ground plans
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the ground plan of a building, factory, etc
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of ichnography
First recorded in 1590–1600; from Middle French ichnographie or directly from Latin ichnographia “ground plan, building plot,” from Greek ichnographía “a tracing out, ground plan”; see origin at ichno- ( def. ), -graphy
Example Sentences
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Plan No. 2 furninshes the ichnography of the distinctly monastic buildings on a larger scale.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
Already a ground-plan, or ichnography, has been laid down of the future colonial empire.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various
From Egypt and Palestine the ichnography spread far and wide.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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