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FASCIA (Latin for a bandage or fillet)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 192 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FASCIA (Latin for a bandage or See also:fillet)  , a See also:term used for many See also:objects which resemble a See also:band in shape; thus in See also:anatomy it is applied to the layers of fibrous connective See also:tissue which sheathe the muscles or See also:cover various parts or See also:organs in the See also:body, and in See also:zoology, and particularly in See also:ornithology, to bands or stripes of See also:colour . In See also:architecture the word is used of the bands into which the See also:architrave of the Ionic and Corinthian orders is subdivided; their origin would seem to have been derived from the superimposing of two or more beams of See also:timber to span the opening between columns and to support a superincumbent See also:weight; the upper See also:beam projected slightly in front of the See also:lower, and similar projections were continued in the See also:stone or See also:marble beam though in one See also:block . In the See also:Roman Corinthian See also:order the fasciae, still projecting one in front of the other, were subdivided by small See also:mouldings sometimes carved . The several bands are known as the first or upper See also:fascia, the second or See also:middle fascia and the third or lower fascia . The term is sometimes applied to See also:flat projecting bands in See also:Renaissance architecture when employed as See also:string courses . It is also used, though more commonly in the See also:form " facia," of the band or See also:plate over a See also:shop-front, on which the name and occupation of the tradesman is written .

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