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VERGE (Lat. virga, a rod)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 1021 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VERGE (
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Lat. virga, a
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rod)  , originally a
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staff denoting authority, whence (from the ceremony in
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swearing fealty to a
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lord) the sense of a measurement, and so boundary or border, of
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land, or generally a margin of space . In
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architecture, a
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verge is the edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof; that on the
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horizontal portion being called "
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eaves." The
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term " verge
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board," generally now known as
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barge board, is the name given to the board under the verge of gables, some-times moulded, and often very richly carved, perforated and cusped, and frequently having pendants and sometimes finials at the
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apex .

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