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With echoes of buttresses and primal pitched-roof forms, they reveal a taste for references to preclassical architecture and a sense of elementary construction.

From The Guardian • Nov. 5, 2012

So entranced was he with the primitive and the preclassical that Moore balked momentarily when offered a Royal College of Art traveling scholarship to Italy in 1925.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whether the observance of this rite in Devonshire is of Roman date, or whether it goes farther back, to a remoter tradition of preclassical times, it is difficult to say.

From Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland by Presland, John