Dingle words

 

Dingle - a deep dell or hollow, usually wooded c.1240, of unknown origin; a dialectal word until it entered literary use 17c. As a proper noun it refers to:

  1. A harbour town in County Kerry Ireland, and the peninsular on which it stands.
  2. A flower garden in a landscaped quarry in The Quarry park, Shrewsbury, England.
  3. OUR HOUSE!

Gabled end - the generally triangular portion of a wall between the lines of a sloping roof

Eave - an eave is the edge of a roof. Eaves usually project beyond the side of the building

Dentil - a small tooth-shaped block used as a repeating ornament in the bedmould of a cornice

Sash - a glazed frame forming part of a window, sometimes fixed but more often made to slide or to pivot on hinges

Lintel - a beam supporting the masonry above a door or window opening

Pilaster - a shallow square-section column attached to a wall

Entablature - the band of mouldings near the top of a facade, divided into cornice, frieze and architrave.

Facade - the exterior face of a building which is the architectural front.

Cornice - the upper section of a classical entablature. Becomes any horizontal molded projection which crowns an element: the cornice of a door or window, for instance, or the cornice of a pedestal.

Frieze - the middle section of a classical entablature .

Architrave - lowest of the three main parts of an entablature that rests directly on top of a column, or the molded frame around a door or window

Pediment - a triangular section or gable found above the horizontal superstructure (entablature) which lies immediately upon the columns. A broken pediment is open or "broken" at the apex, base or both. The gap may be filled with an urn, cartouche, or other ornament

Fanlight - a semicircular or semi-elliptical window over a doorway or another window with glazing bars radiating out like a fan.

Tracery - an ornamental arrangement of intersecting ribwork, usually in the upper part of a Gothic window, forming a pierced pattern

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