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RUDENTED COLUMN [1 record]

Record 1 2003-07-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architectural Elements
DEF

A column adorned by cablelike patterns.

DEF

A column having projectures in form of cables, or canes, in the naked of the shaft.

CONT

[The column] flutings must be rudented, or cabled as far as one third of their height; that is they must be filled up in part to that height, with rudentures.

OBS

cabling; rudenture: Solid convex mass, or molding, partially occupying the flutes of a column.

OBS

rudenture: There is no evidence that this ... word have ever been in actual English use.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments d'architecture
CONT

rudenture : Ornement en forme de baguette lisse, torsadée ou tressée, qui garnit une cannelure de colonne rudentée ou de pilastre rudenté.

OBS

rudenté : Se dit d'une colonne dont le fût est orné de cannelures garnies de baguettes ou de roseaux jusqu'au tiers de leur hauteur.

Spanish

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