set-back
set-back.
1. See buttress; off-set. Also called set-off, scarcement, or weather-table.
2. Upper part of a building, e.g. a skyscraper, set back from lower storeys to enable light and air to reach the street below. Skyscrapers were sometimes built with several set-backs.
1. See buttress; off-set. Also called set-off, scarcement, or weather-table.
2. Upper part of a building, e.g. a skyscraper, set back from lower storeys to enable light and air to reach the street below. Skyscrapers were sometimes built with several set-backs.
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