chief: upper third of a shield.
choir: the east end of the crossing occupied by the choir in a monastic church or cathedral; loosely, the eastern arm of a large church.
cinquefoil: with five foils or cusps.
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chieftaincy, chieftainship - the position of chieftain
clerkship - the job of clerk
commandership, commandery - the position or office of commander ...
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Morris & Company began to sell their wallpapers in Boston in 1873, and by the mid 1870s had representatives for their growing line of wallpaper, fabric and carpet in many major American cities.
Bernini's chief rival in the papal capital was Francesco Borromini, whose designs deviate from the regular compositions of the ancient world and Renaissance even more dramatically.
The gates into a walled town or other fortified place were necessarily in early times the chief points on which the attack concentrated, and the features, common throughout the ages, ...
Capital city of Syria and one of the chief cities of the Middle East.
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Damascus is located in southern Syria on the banks of the Barada river. The area of Damascus forms an oasis on the edge of the Great Syrian desert.
In some cases an attempt, and a successful one, was made to dispense with the vault entirely, as at Hexham, Tynemouth, and Whitby, where in each instance the timber roof of the Anglo-Norman abbey was retained, and the chief attention was devoted to ...
For Zacharias lived in the reign of Cyrus and Darius, at the very time when Thales, chief of the philosophers who wrote of Nature, could give no certain answer to Croesus's inquiry as to deity- perplexed, I suppose, by the words of the prophets.
Manse(chiefly Scots): House of a minister of religion.Margins(chiefly Scots): Dressed stones at the edges of an opening. Also called rybats.
Westminster : Until 1529 the medieval Palace of Westminster was the chief London residence of the monarch as well as the centre for the legal and administrative business of government.
Built in 1865, "Upton" was the home of Wemyss Simpson, the last Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay Company in Sault Ste. Marie. It was subsequently purchased by "Heritage Sault Ste. Marie" and converted into three condominiums.
Coronets - (also helmets crowns etc) usually shown at the top (chief) of the shield, they proclaim status.
Crest - a term often wrongly used, it is the device which sits on top of the coronet.
architrave - from Old French and Old Italian arch+trabs, "chief beam.
Bergfried: (1) A single defensive tower characteristic of German speaking lands, the chief function of which was as a watch tower and as a final refuge, rarely were they used as permanent living quarters. The entrance was situated on the first floor.
The name "Seljuk" comes from the name of the dynasty's founder, a late 10th century Oghuz army chief who converted to Islam. One branch of the dynasty reigned over Persia and Mesopotamia during the 11th and 12th centuries.
The name suggests its chief characteristic - strong vertical lines in window tracery and wall paneling.
Its chief proponent was Lord Burlington, whose Chiswick House copied Palladio’s mid sixteenth-century Villa Rotonda.
Keep - The principal tower of a castle, containing sufficient accommodation to serve as the chief living-quarters permanently or in times of siege; also called a donjon.
Keystone - The central stone of an arch or a rib vault; sometimes carved.
The part of a church between the chief entrance and the choir (quire), demarcated from aisles by piers or columns.
antechamber (10) -- a room which leads to the chief room of a building (Oxford Dict.)
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Buildings may be classified architecturally by period and by style. The chief British architectural periods are:
Bronze Age (1800 BC to 550 BC)
Iron Age (550 BC to AD 43) ...
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Symbol Pb. A soft, malleable, ductile, bluish-white, metallic element, extracted chiefly from galena and in buildings used for guttering, pipes, flashing, and as a roof covering.
A highly figured hardwood having a variety of shades from a grayish hue to deep brown. Used chiefly in structural concealed portions of furniture.
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Chief among these qualities are a sense of conscious restraint in the handling of themes and a sense of rational ordering and proportioning of forms.
State Bank house - House financed, designed and built by the State Savings Bank of Victoria under the Housing and Reclamation Act 1920, for its customers. G. Burridge Leith was the bank's Chief Architect. They were not built after 1939.
Joust - combat, put on for entertainment, in which two knights rode towards each other with lances.
Justiciar - chief political and judicial officer under Noman and early Plantagenet kings.
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architectArchitect derives from the greek arkhos (meaning chief) and tekhne (meaning the art of doing something). armillary sphereAn Armillary sphere is a type of spherical sundial.
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Chief examples of the style are the Doge's Palace and the Ca' d'Oro in Venice. The style was revived in the 19th century, largely through the influence of British architectural critic John Ruskin and his treatise The Stones of Venice.
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