designslinger - Word of the Week: foil

 
[foil (1914) Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, Ralph Adams Cram, Howard Van Doren Shaw,
architects /Image & Artwork: designslinger]

foil [foil] n. in tracery, any of several lobes, circular or nearly so, tangent to the inner side
of a larger arc, and meeting together in a point called a cusp. < Latin: folia, folium

 
[foil, Scottish Rite Cathedral (1873) Chicago, Burling & Adler, architects /Image & Artwork: designslinger]
Posted by designslinger at 3/17/2010 1:38 AM
Categories: Dictionary
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