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DOGTOOTH.--A sharply-pointed ornament in a hollow moulding
which is peculiar to Early English Gothic. It somewhat
resembles a blunt tooth.

DORMER WINDOW.--A window pierced through a sloping roof and
placed under a small gable or roof of its own.

DOME.--A cupola or spherical convex roof, ordinarily
circular on plan.

DOMICAL VAULTING.--Vaulting in which a series of small domes
are employed; in contradistinction to a waggon-head vault,
or an intersecting vault.

DOUBLE TRACERY.--Two layers of tracery one behind the other
and with a clear space between.

E. E. } The Gothic architecture of England in the
EARLY ENGLISH. } thirteenth century. _Abbreviated_ E. E.

EAVES.--The verge or edge of a roof overhanging the wall.

EAVES-COURSE.--A moulding carrying the eaves.

ELEVATION.--(1) A geometrical drawing of part of the
exterior or interior walls of a building; (2) the
architectural treatment of the exterior or interior walls of
a building.

ELIZABETHAN.--The architecture of England in, and for some
time after, the reign of Elizabeth.

EMBATTLED.--Finished with battlements, or in imitation of
battlements.

ENRICHMENTS.--The carved (or coloured) decorations applied
to the mouldings or other features of an architectural
design. (See Mouldings.)

ENTABLATURE (in Classic and Renaissance architecture).--The
superstructure above the columns where an order is employed.
It is divided into the architrave, which rests on the
columns, the frieze and the cornice.

FACADE.--The front of a building or of a principal part of a
building.

FAN VAULT.--The vaulting in use in England in the fifteenth
century, in which a series of conoids bearing some
resemblance to an open fan are employed.

FILLET.--A small moulding of square flat section.

[Illustration: FIG. _T_.--PERPENDICULAR FINIAL.]

FINIAL.--A formally arranged bunch of foliage or other
similar ornament forming the top of a pinnacle, gablet, or
other ornamented feature of Gothic architecture.

FLAMBOYANT STYLE.--The late Gothic architecture of France
at the end of the fifteenth century, so called from the
occurrence of flame-shaped forms in the tracery.

FLECHE.--A name adapted from the French. A slender spire,
mostly placed on a roof; no