BONNETED: a dormer with a semicircular roof line, normally containing an arched window. (IMAGE) BRACKET: a supporting feature under an eave line or raincap, usually decorative. (IMAGE) ...
Bonnet top / Swan's neck pediment - 2 shaped curves ending in spirals (volutes) ...
Bonnet - Freestanding fortification; priest's cap. Boss - Central stone of arch or vault; key stone. Brattice - Timber tower or projecting wooden gallery; hoarding.
Bonnet Top Highboy: Highboy with a full dome or hood over the top of the piece, many antique highboys are missing their bonnet or sustained damage over the years. Bonnet-Top: ...
Bonnet: A small triangular work consisting of two faces which was situated in front and parallel to the salient angle of a bastion or a ravelin, which provided additional defence against enfilade fire. Borg: A term used to refer to a fortress. (N.).
Laird - Bonnet laird, laird's loft, laird's lug - (Scottish) Scots landowner. A Bonnet Laird was a small landowner. A lairds' house is now a recognised general term for a particular type of middle ranking 18th century house.
Blockhouse: Small square fortification, usually of timber bond overlapping arrangement of bricks in courses (flemish, dutch, french, etc.) Bonnet: Freestanding fortification; priest's cap.
Bonnet tile - a hip tile with a bonnet-like appearance. Box Gutter - square shaped gutter, often found behind a parapet wall.
At any rate, when you watch those live crabs that nestle here on this bonnet, such an idea will be almost sure to occur to you; unless, indeed, your fancy has been fixed by the technical term crown also bestowed upon it; ...
See also: House, Architecture, Pediment, Apex, Church
 
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