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JAMB (from Fr. jambe, leg)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 135 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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JAMB (from Fr. jambe, leg)

JAMB (from Fr. jambe, See also:
LEG
LEG (a word of Scandinavian origin, from the Old Norwegian leggr, cf. Swed. lagg, Dan. laeg; the O. Eng. word was sceanca, shank)
leg) , in See also:

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture, the See also:

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POST

post or lining of a See also:

DOORWAY (corresponding to the Gr. Iran, Lat. porte)

doorway or other See also:

APERTURE (from Lat. aperire, to open)

aperture .

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