designslinger - Word of the Week: mascaron


[mascaron (1896) Morton Building, Chicago /Image & Artwork: designslinger]

mascaron [MAS-kuh-ron] n. a human or partly human face, or more rarely, the front of a head of a lion or other beast, more or less caricatured, used as an architectural ornament.
Posted by designslinger at 8/10/2011 3:25 AM
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