mouchette - a teardrop-shaped Gothic tracery design.
pendant - a decorative piece (made of masonry or turned wood) suspended from a roof or vergeboard: used especially in Gothic architecture (p. 30 -roofing gable tops, p.
MOUCHETTE A motif resembling a curved dragger, in Gothic tracery of the curvilinear style.
MULLION A vertical divider in a window.
NARTHEX The entrance hall that stretches across the church's main entrance.
CURVILINEAR TRACERY: a form of window tracery, characteristic of the Decorated style, in which weaving lines of masonry form daggers and mouchettes above ogee arches.
Motte-and-baileyPost-Roman and Norman defence consisting of an earthen mound (motte) topped by a wooden tower within a bailey, an enclosure defended by a ditch and palisade, and also, sometimes, by an internal bank.Mouchette ...
 See also: Choir, Architecture, Tower, Corinthian, Cornice
  
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