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Definition of Bargeboard
1. n. A vergeboard.
Definition of Bargeboard
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of barge board) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bargeboard
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bargeboard
Literary usage of Bargeboard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old Cottage and Domestic Architecture in South-West Surrey, and Notes on the by Ralph Nevill (1889)
"Where weather-tiling has been applied to gables, the face of the front is brought
to nearly the same plane as the verge of roofs; the bargeboard has ..."
2. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"It is altogether probable bargeboard AT SHREWSBURY, SHROPSHIRE; ... (US) bargeboard.
A piece of board hung from the edge of a gable roof where it projects ..."
3. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"cute, bargeboard ; Half Timbered ; and Plate XIV. of Vol. II.) and modern, it is
not infrequent to open one side of the room into a single wide and low ..."
4. A Glossary of Terms Used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture by John Henry Parker (1850)
"93 ; George inn, bargeboard, p. 58 ; Inn, p. 266. Salle, Fr., hall, p. 245.
Capitulaire, Fr., chapter-house, p. 122. Salon, Fr., hall, p. 245. ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"bargeboard (probably from Mcd. Lat. bargas, or barcus, a scaffold, and not from
the now obsolete synonym ..."
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