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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 763 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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QUOINS (an old variant spelling of " See also:coin," from See also:Lat. See also:cuneus, a See also:wedge)  , in See also:architecture, the See also:term for the See also:external See also:angle of a See also:building, generally applied to the See also:ashlar See also:masonry employed to stop the See also:rubble masonry or See also:brickwork of the See also:wall at the angles, as also of buttresses, doorways or projecting features . In Saxon See also:work the See also:quoins were built with large stones laid horizontally and vertically in alternate courses, technically known as " See also:long and See also:short " work . Sometimes, to give greater importance to the angles of towers, the quoin stones are rusticated, and this treatment is found extensively employed in See also:ancient See also:German towns . At Eastbury See also:Manor See also:House in See also:Essex, built in See also:brick, the quoins at the angles of the walls, See also:doorway and windows were plastered in See also:imitation of stonework .

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