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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 254 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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FENESTRATION (from O. Fr. fenestre, modern fenelre, Lat. fenestra, a window, connected with Gr. cbaivety, to show)

FENESTRATION (from O. Fr. fenestre,
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MODERN
modern fenelre,
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LAT
Lat. fenestra, a window, connected with Gr. cbaivety, to show) , an architectural

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TERM

term applied to the arrangement of windows on the front of a

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BUILDING

building, more especially when, in the

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ABSENCE (Lat. absentia)

absence of columns or pilasters separating them, they constitute its

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CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief architectural embellishment . The term " fenestral "is given to a

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FRAME

frame or "

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CHASSIS (Fr. chassis, a frame, from the Late. Lat. capsum, an enclosed space)

chassis " on which oiled

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paper or thin

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CLOTH

cloth was strained to keep out

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wind and

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RAIN (O.E. regn; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Regen, Swed. and Dan. regn; it has been connected with Lat. rigare, to wet, Gr. 13pixeav)

rain when the windows were not glazed .

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