Clasping: Encasing the angle. Clerestory: An upper story of a building with windows above adjacent roofs.
CLASPING BUTTRESS: a buttress which entirely encloses the corner of a building. COFFERED PANEL: a sunk panel, as used particularly in carpentry (cf. FIELDED). COFFERING: an arrangement of sunken panels decorating a vault or arch soffit.
Clasping - encasing the angle.
Cloister - four-sided enclosure with a covered walk along each side connecting a church with the principal administrative and domestic buildings.
Clunch - hard chalky material.
Clasping buttress: one which encases the angle. Diagonal buttress: set diagonally to the angle. A flying buttress transmits the thrust to a heavy abutment by means of an arch or half-arch.
amplexicaul leaf - a leaf with its base clasping the stem
greenery, verdure - green foliage
leaflet - part of a compound leaf ...
Different types can exist at corners, for example, angled, diagonal, or clasping. A flying buttress transmits the thrust of a wall by means of a half arch, downwards into a pier.
The junction, of an octagonal spire and a square tower involved a distinct architectural problem. A thirteenth century technical innovation in England, broaches are the triangular shapes clasping the spire above the top corners of the tower.
 See also: Buttress, Ornament, Architecture, Church, Timber
  
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