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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 3 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LABEL (a See also:French word, now represented by lambeau, possibly a variant; it is of obscure origin and may be connected with a See also:Teutonic word appearing in the See also:English " See also:lap," a flap or See also:fold)  , a slip, See also:ticket, or card of See also:paper, See also:metal or other material, attached to an See also:object, such as a See also:parcel, See also:bottle, &c., and containing a name, address, description or other See also:information, for the purpose of See also:identification . Originally the word meant a See also:band or ribbon of See also:linen or other material, and was thus applied to the fillets (infulae) attached to a See also:bishop's See also:mitre . In See also:heraldry the " See also:label " is a See also:mark of " cadency." In See also:architecture the See also:term " label " is applied to the See also:outer projecting moulding over doors, windows, See also:arches, &c., sometimes called " See also:Dripstone " or " See also:Weather Moulding," or " See also:Hood See also:Mould." The former terms seem scarcely applicable, as this moulding is often inside a See also:building where no See also:rain could come, and consequently there is no drip . In See also:Norman times the label frequently did not project, and when it did it was very little, and formed See also:part of the See also:series of See also:arch See also:mouldings . In the See also:Early See also:English styles they were not very large, sometimes slightly undercut, sometimes deeply, sometimes a See also:quarter See also:round with See also:chamfer, and very frequently a "See also:roll" or " See also:scroll-moulding," so called because it resembles the part of a scroll where the edge laps over the See also:body of the roll . Labels generally resemble the See also:string-courses of the See also:period, and, in fact, often return horizontally and See also:form strings . They are less See also:common in See also:Continental architecture than in English .

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