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Technical Dictionary
Facade, front view or elevation. Faience, earthenware, porcelain. Fan-light, fan-shaped window over door. Fenestration, with windows or openings. Filigree, fine ornamental work : delicate tracery. "Filling," the repeating pattern on the largest or central space of
a wall. Finial, finishing portion of a pinnacle. Flamboyant, florid, showy style. Flange, projecting flat, rim, collar or rib. Fleche, slender spire. Flexured, curved or bent. Fluting, vertical channelling on the shaft of a column. Forum, public place, place of assembly, especially at Rome. Fret, fretwork, ornamental pattern usually carved and perforated. Frieze, upper border: middle division of entablature.
Gable, gable-end, triangular portion of roof. Gallery, assage common to rooms in an upper story. Galli, small street or lane. Gambhara, (Jain) sanctuary cell. Gana, child figures in ornament, urchins. Gandharvas, celestial musicians of Indra. Garasmukha, same as kirtimukha, a grotesque mask used in
ornamentation. Garaspatti, a particular string-course or moulding in the basement
of temples decorated with the garasmukha. Garbha-griha, adytum, shrine, the most sacred part of a temple. Garbha-mudra, carved lotus on the topmost course of corbels of
the rakha (curvilinear portion). Gargoyle, projecting water-spout in Gothic architecture. Garth, small garden within cloisters. Garuda, vahana or vehicle (riding bird) of Vishnu.
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