designslinger - Word of the Week: impost


[impost (1887) Perry H. Smith House /Image & Artwork: designslinger]

impost [IM-pohst] n. a masonry unit, often distinctively profiled and decorative, that receives and distributes the thrust at one end of an arch.
Posted by designslinger at 11/30/2011 2:03 AM
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