Foil
Pronounced: FOYL
A lobe or leaf-shaped curve formed between cusps inside an arch or circle
In French, "foil" means "leaf" ...
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foil -"leaf" in Gothic architecture.
gingerbread - a word to describe any kind of decoration on a home found in such places as the gables, vergeboards, porches, eaves, and around windows or doors.
Foil - A lobe or leaf-shaped curve formed by the cusping of a circle or an arch.
Fret - A geometrical ornament of horizontal and vertical straight lines repeated to form a band.
Aluminum foil (perm = 0.05).
Paper-backed aluminum.
Polyethylene plastic sheet, 6 mil or greater in thickness (perm = 0.06).
Kraft paper, often attached to one side of fiberglass batts (perm = 0.40).
Six-foil - six-lobed.
Sleeper - lowest horizontal timber (or low wall).
Slight - to damage or destroy a castle to render it unfit for use or occupation as a fortress.
- a protective barrier, usually of polythene or foil-backed plaster board designed to prevent the passage of moisture through a structure thereby eliminating its condensation on cooler surfaces behind.
Tracery: Geometrically constructed building ornament such as a foil found in the upper part of Gothic rose windows (fig.2, C). This type of stonework decoration became more complex during the High Gothic and Flamboyant phase.
A buttress which transmits the thrust to a heavy support (abutment) by means of an arch or half-arch.Flying stairA stair with one or more flights unsupported by a wall on either side.Foil ...
Gold or silver was applied to the mirror back and engraved with a needle before placing black or another contrasting color behind the foil. This was then enclosed with a second layer of glass or a coating of varnish.
Within the central core are a series of vaulted rooms, one on each storey, each with a different form of vault. The exterior of the tower is decorated with windows set within blind niches with multi-foil and cusped arches, ...
 See also: Architecture, Church, Ornament, Arch, Tracery
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