stringcourse
[ string-kawrs, -kohrs ]
nounArchitecture.
a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
Origin of stringcourse
1- Also called belt course, string .
Words Nearby stringcourse
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How to use stringcourse in a sentence
Another stringcourse divides the triforium and clerestory, which has also round-arched windows of one light.
Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain | George Edmund StreetParts of the original external stringcourse of the apse can be seen.
The Cathedral Church of Peterborough | W.D. SweetingBelow the triforium a stringcourse of chevrons runs all along.
The Cathedral Church of Peterborough | W.D. Sweeting
British Dictionary definitions for string course
string course
noun
another name for cordon (def. 4)
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