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Definition of Tuscan order
1. Noun. A Roman order that resembles the Doric order but without a fluted shaft.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tuscan Order
Literary usage of Tuscan order
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practical Draughtsman's Book of Industrial Design and Machinist's and by Charles A. Armengaud, William Johnson, Jules Amouroux (1854)
"The whole height of the Tuscan order is 22 modules 2 parts, apportioned as
follows : — The column is 14 modules; the pedestal, 4 modules 8 parts; ..."
2. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1902)
"The Tuscan order, Fig. 15, is of doubtful origin, and was probably never very
extensively used. Massive in appearance and severe in its outlines, ..."
3. The Rudiments of Architecture and Building for the Use of Architects by John Bullock (1865)
"Tuscan order. Cavetto. This Order is derived CoT<"a'- from the Doric ... The Tuscan
Order has been differently treated by different Architects, ..."
4. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1905)
"TABLE OF THE Tuscan order— PLATES V, VI, AND VII i D equals height of Plinth.
, [height of Cornice, i Z? equals] , (.projection of Cornice. i D equals i D ..."
5. Shaw's Civil Architecture: Being a Complete Theoretical and Practical System by Edward Shaw (1852)
"Tuscan order. The Romans added the Tuscan, or Etruscan, to the three Grecian
orders, as they subsequently did the Composite. ..."
6. London: Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis by David Hughson (1807)
"... is four hundred feet long, with an ambulatory in front of three hundred and
forty feet, under a piazza, elevated on stone columns of the Tuscan order. ..."
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