coussinet

Example Sentences

• "The intrados of a simple vault is generally formed of the portion of the surface of a cylinder, cylindroid, or sphere, never greater than that of half the solid; and the springing lines of the coussinet, which terminate the walls from which the vault rises, are generally straight lines, parallel to the axis of the cylinder or cylindroid."
• "It is to be observed that in most of , if not in all , their bridges , the ancients did not increase the dimensions of their voussoirs from the crown towards the springing or coussinet, but made them of an equal thickness throughout; in this they were followed by Palladio, and all the Italian architects."
• "Investigation by analysis of the pressures and resistances of an arch, 1st . Hypothesis of a plat-band; stability at the springing charge necessary on the coussinet; stability of the plat-band on its piers; thickness of the piers."
• "The term balteus is also used by Vitruvius to denote the strap which seems to bind up the coussinet or cushion of the Ionic capital."
• "Many details merely painted on in the Doric order, like the leaves on the molding, the coussinet, etc., are presented plastically in the Ionic."
• "It has not only a carved coussinet, little ledge and plinth, but receives both to the right and left a spiral winding, and at the sides a decorative kind of cushion, wfrom which is derivedi ts title of the pulvinated capital."