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ORDINANCE, or ORDONNANCE

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 188 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ORDINANCE, or ORDONNANCE  , in architecture, a composition of some particular order or style . It need not be restricted to columnar composition, but applies to any kind of design which is subjected to conventional rules for its arrangement .

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