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An ornament often resembling curved and bent foliage, projecting from the sloping edge of a gable, spire, etc.
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An ornamental foliate form placed at regularly spaced intervals on the slopes and edges of the spires, pinnacles, gables, and similar elements of Gothic buildings.
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An ornament carved to resemble a fern frond or bunches of foliage, often used to decorate pinnacles.
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An ornament consisting of a projecting piece of sculpture worked on the edge of a gable, on one of the sloping ridges of a spire, on an upright of ornamental character, such as the side pieces of choir stalls, or the like.
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A decorative feature carved in various leaf shapes and projecting at regular intervals from the angles of spires, pinnacles, canopies, gables, etc., in Gothic architecture. Illustration from St. Louis' RC
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Curling leaf-shape.
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an architectural ornament of curved foliage used at the edge of a spire or gable
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a small ornament depicting stylized foliage looking a little like an upturned flower bud. One of the constituents of Early Gothic capitals
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a small ornament projecting from the sloping angles of pinnacles, spires, etc., typically depicting stylized foliage.
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A medieval ornament, almost always depicting a plant form, and curving up and away from the supporting surface and partially returning upon itself in a knoblike tremination.
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Decoration, usually in the form of bunched and curved foliage on the sloping edge of a gable, pinnacle or spire.
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A projecting, foliate ornament of a capital, pinnacle, gable or buttress.
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A small carved and decorated projection in the form of a flower"
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An upwardly projecting repeated decorative element, often along spires and gables in Gothic Revival architecture.
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An ornament of curved leaves or flowers on a curving stalk, which is used to decorate the angles of roofs, gables, etc., primarily with Gothic architecture.
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decorative hook-like spur of stone carved in various leaf shapes and projecting at regular intervals from the angle of the spires, pinnacles, canopies and gables
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A crocket is a hook-shaped decorative element common in Gothic architecture. In the form of a stylised carving of curled leaves, buds or flowers, and used at regular intervals to decorate the sloping edges of spires, finials, pinnacles, and wimpergs.
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