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TUDOR FLOWER, or CRESTING

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 363 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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FLOWER (Lat. flos, floris; Fr. fleur)
FLOWER, SIB

FLOWER, or CRESTING , an architectural

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ORNAMENT (Lat. ornare, to adorn)

ornament much used in the Tudor

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period on the tops of the cornices of

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SCREEN (usually, but very doubtfully, connected with Lat. scrinium, a box for holding books, from scribere, to write; a connexion with Ger. Schranke, barrier, has been suggested)

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WORK

work, &c., instead of battlements . It consists generally of a

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FLAT (a modification of O. Eng. flet, an obsolete word of Teutonic origin, meaning the ground beneath the feet)

flat, upright

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LEAF (O. Eng. leaf, cf. Dutch loof, Ger. Laub, Swed. lof, &c.; possibly to be referred to the root seen in Gr. Ma-eta, to peel, strip)

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STANDING

standing on stems .

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