BARGEBOARD (probably from Med.

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• LAT

Lat. bargus, or barcus, a

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• SCAFFOLD
• SCAFFOLD, SCAFFOLDING (from the O. Fr. escafaut, originally escafalt, modern echafaud, a corruption of the Italian or Spanish calafalco, a platform, especially a canopy over a bier, a catafalque; this word is composed of O. Span. altar, O. Ital. catare, t

scaffold, and not from the now obsolete synonym " vergeboard ")  , the boards fastened to the projecting gables of a roof to give strength to the same and to mask or hide the horizontal timbers of the roof to which they were attached . Bargeboards are some-times moulded only or carved, but as a rule the lower edges were cusped and had tracery in the spandrels besides being otherwise elaborated . The richest example is one at Ockwells in Berkshire, England, which is moulded and carved as if it were intended for internal work .