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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 399 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARGEBOARD (probably from Med.
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Lat. bargus, or barcus, a 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
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horizontal timbers of the roof to which they were attached . Bargeboards are some-times moulded only or carved, but as a
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rule the
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lower edges were cusped and had
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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
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internal
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work .

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