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See also:SPANDRIL, or SPANDREL (formerly splaundrel, a word of unknown origin) , in See also:architecture, the space between any See also:arch or curved See also:brace and the level See also:label, beams, &c., over the same . The spandrils over doorways in Perpendicular See also:work are generally richly decorated . At Magdalen See also:College, See also:Oxford, is one which is perforated, and has a most beautiful effect . The See also:spandril of doors is sometimes ornamented in the Decorated See also:period; but seldom forms See also:part of the See also:composition of the See also:doorway itself, being generally over the label . |
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