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SCOTIA (Gr. o'Karca, shadow or darkness)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 412 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SCOTIA (Gr. o'Karca, See also:shadow or darkness)  , in See also:architecture, a See also:concave moulding most commonly used in bases, which projects a deep See also:shadow on itself, and is thereby a most effective moulding under the See also:eye, as in a See also:base . (See MOULDING.) In the former See also:case the derivation seems to be from the O . Fr . Escoute, and that from the Latin ausculiare, but in the latter from the Dutch Koet, which is said to be of See also:Celtic extraction—cwtiar . The Fr. macreuse, possibly from See also:Lat. mater, indicating a See also:bird that may be eaten in See also:Lent or on the fast days of the See also:Roman See also:Church, is of See also:double signification, meaning in the See also:south of See also:France a See also:coot and in the See also:north a See also:scoter . By the See also:wild-fowlers of parts of North See also:America scoters are commonly called coots .

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