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Definition of Dripstones
1. dripstone [n] - See also: dripstone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dripstones
Literary usage of Dripstones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gothic Architecture in England: An Analysis of the Origin & Development of by Francis Bond (1906)
"Ground-Courses—Strings--dripstones—Hood-Molds—Labels. ... For these was contrived
a system of ground-courses, string-courses, dripstones, and hood-molds. ..."
2. A Glossary of Terms Used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture by John Henry Parker (1845)
"ROLL-MOULDING—ROMAN ARCHITECTURE, especially in strings and dripstones: its
varieties are numerous, If, \h JV r and though some of them bear resemblance to ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1850)
"... and time subsequent substitution of a single arch above the three windows in
place of their three connected dripstones; next follows the extension of ..."
4. Archaeologia Cantiana by Kent Archaeological Society (1874)
"... masonry are Perpendicular, and have dripstones ; all the windows in the ...
with no dripstones, except in the cases of the great east window, ..."
5. Visits to fields of battle, in England, of the fifteenth century by Richard Brooke (1857)
"On each side of the exterior of the chancel, and nearest the east end, are
dripstones, as if intended for the arch of a window, carried up nearly but not ..."
6. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method for the Student by Banister Fletcher (1905)
"Cornices and dripstones often have their deep hollows filled with foliage and
carving, ... dripstones are finished with carved heads or grotesques, ..."
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