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apophyge

A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | 2000 | 329 words | Copyright

apophyge, apophysis, apothesis.
1. Outward curve, called congé or scape, connecting the shaft of a Classical column to the fillets over the base and under the astragal beneath the capital.

2. Hypotrachelium of the Tuscan capital or the slightly concave trachelium beneath the echinus of certain archaic Greek Doric capitals.

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