Striated. Fluted like a column.
Strigilis, R. (stringo, to scrape). A bronze scraper for the skin, curved and hollowed like a spoon, used in the bath. The same term is used in architecture for a fluting which resembles the bath-strigil in form.
String-course, Arch. A narrow moulding projecting from the wall of a building in a horizontal line.
Stroma, Gr. (στρῶμα). A Greek term synonymous with the Latin Stragulum.
Strontian Yellow. A pale canary-coloured pigment.
Strophe (στρέφω, to turn). In Greek poetry, the first division of a choral ode, of which the other parts were the antistrophe and the epode.
Strophium, R. (στρόφιον, lit. a thing twisted). (1) A long scarf which the Roman women rolled into a band, and fastened round the body and breast. (2) A girdle for the same purpose, generally of leather. (3) The term likewise denoted the cable of an anchor. (See Orarium.)
Structura, R. (struo, to build up). A general term for any kind of masonry. (See Opus.)
Struppus or Strupus, R. A rope or other fastening by which the oar is attached to the thole (scalmus).
Stucco, It. A fine plaster, for covering walls, prepared by various methods, as a mixture of gypsum and glue; or white marble, pulverized with plaster of lime and mixed with water; the opus albarium of the ancients.