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Definition of Bargeboards
1. bargeboard [n] - See also: bargeboard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bargeboards
Literary usage of Bargeboards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old Cottages, Farm Houses, and Other Half-timber Buildings in Shropshire by Edward Augustus Ould, James Parkinson (1904)
"bargeboards FROM MIDDLEBROOK. the projecting windows have disappeared. Built on
a steep decline, these steps to the doorways are required to preserve the ..."
2. Old Cottage and Domestic Architecture in South-West Surrey, and Notes on the by Ralph Nevill (1889)
"ROOFS, bargeboards, ETC. THE chief feature of a cottage must always be its roof,
and it is the treatment of this that is all-important. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"The two bargeboards usually meet at the ridge of the roof and extend, one on
either side, to the eave. They are often made ornamental, carved or pierced ..."
4. Picturesque English Cottages and Their Doorway Gardens by Peter Hampson Ditchfield (1905)
"Thus the earliest forms reveal bargeboards with the edges cut into cusps. In the
sixteenth century the boards are pierced with tracery, in the form of ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"Many of the drawings published by the elder Pugin were executed by his pupils,
and a large proportion of those in his 'Ornamental bargeboards' and his ..."
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