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stringcourse
[ string-kawrs, -kohrs ]
noun
, Architecture.
- a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of stringcourse1
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Example Sentences
Another stringcourse divides the triforium and clerestory, which has also round-arched windows of one light.
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Parts of the original external stringcourse of the apse can be seen.
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Below the triforium a stringcourse of chevrons runs all along.
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