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diaper work [3 records]

Record 1 1999-10-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Masonry Practice
DEF

Decorative pattern in brickwork, achieved by so laying the facing bricks, as to give a diamond pattern of lighter or darker coloured headers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maçonnerie
DEF

"appareil réticulé" : Appareil constitué d'éléments à parement carré de même dimension, posés sur l'angle de façon que les joints forment un dessin analogue à celui des mailles d'un filet.

DEF

"réticulé" : Parement, appareil réticulé.

OBS

"être réticulé" : En parlant d'un type romain de parement de mur (opus reticulatum), être formé de moellons carrés disposés en diagonale.

OBS

"appareil" : Taille et disposition exactes des pierres ou des marbres, selon leur convenance et leur relation avec telle ou telle partie d'un édifice, d'un mouvement; disposition semblable des briques.

OBS

On trouve une illustration de l'appareil réticulé dans LAROG 1982 vol. 1 p. 575 et dans PERAR 1972 vol. 2 no 64.

Spanish

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Record 2 1990-01-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architecture
DEF

All-over surface decoration composed of a small repeated pattern such as lozenges or squares.

OBS

See the illustration in source PEVAR.

OBS

"diaper" (transitive verb): To diversify the surface or ground of (anything) with a small uniform pattern; now specifically with one consisting of or based upon a diamond-shaped reticulation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Architecture
OBS

être losangé : Présenter une série de losanges, formant en général un motif décoratif : [p. ex. :] Frise losangée.

Spanish

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Record 3 1983-04-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
OBS

marked by a rib net.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie

Spanish

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