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Glossary

Lucam
Projecting housing for a hoist pulley on an upper storey of warehouses, mills, etc., for raising goods to the loading doors.
Lucarne
Small gabled opening in a roof or spire.
Luckenbooth
(Scots): Lock-up booth or shop.
Lugged
Of an architrave (a formalized lintel), with side projections at the top. Also called an eared architrave.
Lunette
Semicircular window or blind panel.
Lychgate
(lit. corpse-gate): Roofed gateway entrance to a churchyard for the reception of a coffin.
Lynchet
Long terraced strip of soil on the downward side of prehistoric and medieval fields, accumulated because of continual ploughing along the contours.
Machicolations
(lit. mashing devices): On a castle, a series of openings between the corbels that support a projecting parapet through which missiles can be dropped. Used decoratively on post-medieval buildings.
Mains
(Scots): Home farm on an estate.
Mannerism
Derbyshire
The predominant style of mid- to late-16th-century Italy, in which classical motifs may be used in deliberate disregard of original conventions or contexts; by extension, a self-consciously formal approach to design in other idioms. The decorative classical architecture of mid-17th-century England is sometimes called Artisan Mannerism, because master masons and other craftsmen were its chief exponents.

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