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DRIPSTONE

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 584 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DRIPSTONE  , in

architecture, a projecting moulding weathered on the upper
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surface and throated underneath so as to form a drip . The
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term is more correctly applied to a
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string course . When carried round an arch its more correct description would be a hood (q.v.) . When employed inside a
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building it serves a decorative purpose only .

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