architecture terminology
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| show | A rooflike structure, often made of canvas or plastic, that serves as a shelter, as over a storefront, window, door, or deck.
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| show | A rail and the row of balusters or posts that support it, as along the front of a gallery.
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| show | A structure, usually brick or stone, built against a wall for support or reinforcement.
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| show | A horizontal molded projection that crowns or completes a building or wall.
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| show | The ridge on a roof.
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| show | A domelike structure surmounting a roof or dome, often used as a lookout or to admit light and air.
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| show | A window set vertically into a small gable projecting from a sloping roof.
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| show | A vaulted roof having a circular, polygonal, or elliptical base and a generally hemispherical or semispherical shape.
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| show | A building, especially one of imposing appearance or size.
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| show | The face of a building.
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| show | A horizontal piece (such as a board) covering the joint between the top of a wall and the projecting eaves.
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| show | A decorated band along the upper part of an interior wall.
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| show | A formal ornament at the top of a canopy, gable, pinnacle, etc., usually in the general shape of a fleur-de-lis.
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| show | A flat horizontal band or member between moldings, especially in a classical entablature.
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| lintel | show 🗑
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| mansard | show 🗑
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| mullion | show 🗑
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| parapet | show 🗑
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| show | A shallow pier or a rectangular column projecting only slightly from a wall. Primarily decorative.
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| show | A very small, slender tower. In modern homes, usually only ornamental.
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| show | The upper section of a classical building, resting on the columns and constituting the architrave, frieze, and cornice.
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