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GRIFFE (French for "claw")

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 594 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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GRIFFE (French for "claw")

GRIFFE (
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FRENCH
FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)
French for "claw") , an architectural

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TERM

term for the

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SPUR (A.S. spura, spora, related to spornan, spurnan, to kick, spurn; cf. M.H.G. sporn, mod. Ger. Sporn)

spur, an

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ORNAMENT (Lat. ornare, to adorn)

ornament carved at the

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ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

angle of the square

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BASE

base of columns .

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