ressault

A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | 2000 | 370 words | Copyright

ressault, ressaut.
1. Projection, as of a chimney-breast, pilaster, or any member or part of a building before a wall or another, e.g. a moulding projecting in front of another moulding.

2. In Classical architecture the breaking out of a length of entablature with two returns, with a column and pilaster, or pair of columns supporting the projection.

3. Roll-moulding.

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