Wales. The strong side planks of the body of a ship, running fore and aft.
Walking-sticks. (See Bourdon.) (See also Fig. [91].) Fairholt (Costume in England) gives the following quotation from an inventory of Greenwich Palace, temp. Henry VIII.
“A cane, garnished with sylver and gilte, with astronomie upon it. A cane, garnished with golde, having a perfume in the toppe, under that a diall, with a pair of twitchers, and a pair of compasses of golde, and a foot rule of golde, a knife and a file the haft of golde, with a whetstone tipped with golde.”
Under Charles II. bunches of ribands on the tops of canes were fashionable.
Wall Painting. The Greek temples were brilliantly decorated with painting and gilding internally. “The method has been investigated and is described to be the colouring of the body of the wall of a pale yellow or golden colour, the triglyphs and mutules blue, the metopes and the tympanum red, and some other portions of the building green, and varying these tints or using them of greater or less intensity as the judgment of the artist dictated.” (Hittorf, Essay on the Polychromy of Greek Architecture.) The colouring of the Egyptian bas-reliefs is familiar. The buildings of Herculaneum and Pompeii were decorated with frescoes and mosaics, in the Augustan age of Roman art. In the Middle Ages the custom was continued of decorating with colour the architecture of sacred edifices; and many old palaces and mansions in England show relics of the practice of decorating the walls with tempera, especially under Henry III. (See Frescoes, Stereochromy, Water-work, &c.)
Fig. 696. Wallet—Badge of the Gueux.
Wallet. The badge of the Gueux; two hands clasped through the handles of a beggar’s wallet. (See Gueux.)
Wall-plates, in building. Horizontal timbers, called plates, properly those at the top of a building under the roof.
Walled, Muraillée, Her. Made to represent brick or stone-work.