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Architectural ornament   /ˌɑrkətˈɛktʃərəl ˈɔrnəmənt/   Listen
Architectural ornament

noun
1.
(architecture) something added to a building to improve its appearance.





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"Architectural ornament" Quotes from Famous Books



... to sculpture, uniting the beauty of the Greek and the expression of the Renaissance with some third quality yet undiscovered, so as to give us the images of men and women splendidly alive, yet not disqualified from making, as all true sculpture should, architectural ornament. All this it may do; or, on the other hand, it may lead us into the desert, and art may seem to be dead amidst us; or feebly and uncertainly to be struggling in a world which has ...
— Signs of Change • William Morris


Words linked to "Architectural ornament" :   foliation, architecture, Greek key, guilloche, trefoil, crocket, fret, foliage, decoration, frieze, Greek fret, ornamentation, antefix, dogtooth, ornament, key pattern


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