Dressing - Carved stonework around openings.
Drum Tower - A large, circular, low, squat tower built into a wall.
Drystone - Unmortared masonry.
dressings: blocks of stone that have been cut with true plane faces or shaped into quoins or keystones.
DRESSINGS
The stone or brickwork worked to a finished face about an angle, opening, or other feature.
EAVES
That part of a sloping roof which is overhanging.
Dressing. Stone surface of a building, worked to a finish, whether smooth or moulded. Also the decorative stonework around any of the openings.
Drop arch. * Arch.
Drum. * Dome.
DRESSING Carved stonework around openings.
TOP
EAVES That part of a sloping roof which is overhanging.
Dressings - Finely worked (moulded or carved) stones, mouldings or decoration, as prominent and decorative door and window surrounds and as quoins at the angles.
Dressings / accents
- all embracing term, used to describe stones worked to a smooth face and used to form features such as string courses or window margins which contrasts with the surrounding facing material.
dressing table, toilet table, vanity, dresser - low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup
drop-leaf table - a table that has a drop-leaf to enlarge its surface ...
Dressing
carved or smoothed stonework around openings or along edges
Dripstone ...
Dressing: Carved stonework around openings. Drum: A cylindrical wall which supports a dome. Drum Pier: Massive circular support. Drum Tower: A large, circular, low, squat tower built into a wall. Drystone: Unmortared masonry.
Boaster - A mason's boasting chisel, 40 to 80 mm wide, struck by a mallet in dressing stone
Boasting - The hand wasting or rough dressing of the surface with oblique or vertical strokes, which are usually not uniform, from a boaster ...
Those of the Norman period generally have little projection, and are sometimes so flat as to be little more than outer dressings and hoodmoulds to the inner door.
It comprises three main parts, a hall or undressing room, three heated rooms and a well-house to the north. The hall is divided into four parts, the main hall, an alcove and two small rooms either side.
This transformation was not the standard dressing of a specific place but a creation of a new anonymous, pure, cubic space that freed itself from the immediate history of Berlin, the church and the monarchy, ...
rubbed-brick arches and dressings over and around openings
terra cotta embellishments
open-bed and broken pediments
monumental chimneys
shaped and Dutch gables
tile-hung gabled walls
white painted balustrades
balconies
bay-windows ...
The Victorian house builder was as interested in 'dressing up' the house with as many frills, swirls, patterns and details as the Victorian dress maker was in adding lace, puffs, strings of velvet and crinolines onto a Victorian dress.
Interior view of master bedroom dressing area
Interior view of master bedroom
Interior view of passage to guest room
Interior view of passage to servant's wing
Interior view of reading alcove
Interior view of second floor landing ...
Newer homes feature enormous walk-in closets, spacious dressing rooms, and plenty of easy-to-reach built-in cabinets. Cathedral ceilings are becoming passé because families tend to prefer usable space below the roof.
A standing mirror in a freestanding vertical frame. Also called a dressing mirror.
Chevron:
An ancient European design motif consisting of a pattern of pointed zig zags.
While he was dressing and putting on his shoes, he not only gave audience to his friends, but if the Count of the Palace told him of any suit in which his judgement was necessary, he had the parties brought before him forthwith, ...
 See also: House, Architecture, Arches, Floor, Well
  
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