Salient - Wall projection, arrowhead.
Saltire - Diagonal, equal-limbed cross.
Sally-port - Small heavily fortified side door from which the defenders can rush out, strike, and retire.
Salient
- a line of defence which points towards the attackers in an arrow shape. The opposite of re-entrant.
See fortification.
Salient angle: The angle facing away from the centre of the place.
Salient work: A work incorporating salient angles. See bastion trace, redoubt, sconce.
To glance at the salient features of this landscape through the picturesque framework of a ragged and ruined stone window--arch of the time of Christ, thus hiding from sight all that is unattractive, ...
Ravelin: Outwork with two faces forming a salient angle; like in a star-shaped fort. Rear-arch: Arch on the inner side of a wall. Redoubt: Small self-contained fieldwork, a refuge for soldiers outside the main defenses.
Middle Gothic glass, halting as it does between the relatively rude mosaic of early times and the painter-like accomplishment of fully-developed glass painting, has not the salient merits of either.
(Groined formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults, the groin being the salient angle made by two intersecting surfaces.) An arched ceiling constructed of masonry materials; the undersurface, or soffit, is usually curved.
outwork with two faces forming a salient angle
Redoubt
outwork or detached fieldwork defending a pass, hilltop etc. also a temporary defence work built inside a fortification as a last defensive position ...
Ravelin - In military architecture, an outwork formed of two faces of a salient angle and constructed beyond the main ditch and in front of the curtain wall.
Ravelin - Leonardo da Vinci ...
ravelin In military architecture, an outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; often refers to any outwork near a fort.
rerados The decorative wall or screen behind the altar.
This style originated in Rome and is associated with the Catholic Counter-Reformation, its salient characteristics -- overt rhetoric and dynamic movement -- being well suited to expressing the self-confidence and proselytizing spirit of the ...
This salient characteristic, that is, of sufficient familiarity, is most easily noted in cases where the sobriquet becomes more familiar than the original name for which it was formed as an alternative.
with the numberless other examples of a perfected art, from the Channel to the Pyrenees, the Alps to the sea, form the greatest cycle of buildings in a definite and highly developed style that has ever been produced by man, and is the most salient ...
 See also: Architecture, House, Trave, Ornament, Ground
  
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