Console, a large scroll-shaped bracket or ornament, having its broadest curve at the bottom.

Corinthianesque, resembling the Corinthian; used of capitals having corner-volutes and acanthus leaves, but combined otherwise than in the classic Corinthian type.

Empaistic, made of, or overlaid with, sheet-metal beaten or hammered into decorative patterns.

Exedræ, curved seats of stone; niches or recesses, sometimes of considerable size, provided with seats for the public.

Fenestration, the whole system or arrangement of windows and openings in an architectural composition.

Four-part. A four-part vault is a groined vault formed by the intersection of two barrel vaults. Its diagonal edges or groins divide it into four sections, triangular in plan, each called a compartment.

Gigantomachia, a group or composition representing the mythical combat between the gods and the giants.

Half-timbered, constructed with a timber framework showing externally, and filled in with masonry or brickwork.

Imaum, imâm, a Mohammedan priest.

Kaabah, the sacred shrine at Meccah, a nearly cubical structure hung with black cloth.