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Architecture; General architecture
Screen or railing used to enclose a chantry, tomb or chapel, in a church, and for the space thus enclosed.
Attic
Architecture; General architecture
Small top storey within a roof. The storey above the main entablature of a classical façade.
Lightning rod
Architecture; General architecture
A metal rod that protects a building or another structure from lightning. It conducts lightning along a heavy wire.
Pavilion
Architecture; General architecture
A free standing structure near the main building or an ending structure on building wings.
Mansard roof
Architecture; General architecture
A curb hip roof in which each face has two slopes, the lower one steeper than the upper. The term was used in the French mansarde after the accomplished 17th-century French architect noted for using ...
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