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Entablature
A superstructure of moldings and bands which lie horizontally above
columns, resting on their capitals.

Ephebeum
Large hall in the ancient Palaestra furnished with seats, the length of
which should be a third larger than the width. It served for the exercises of

youths of from sixteen to eighteen years of age.
Epinaos
Open vestibule behind the nave. The term is not found in any classic

author, but is a modern coinage, originating in Germany, to differentiate
the feature from theopisthodomos, which in the Parthenon was an enclosed
chamber.

Estrade
French term for a raised platform or dais. In the Levant, the estrade of
a divan is called a Sopha, from which comes our word 'sofa'.

Eustyle
intercolumniation defined by Vitruvius as being of the best proportion,
i.e. two and a quarter diameters.

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Fanlight
Window, semicircular or semi-elliptical in shape, with glazing bars or

tracery sets radiating out like an open fan.
Feretory
Enclosure or chapel within which the ferreter shrine, or tomb (as in

Henry VII.'s chapel), was placed.
Flushwork

The decorative combination on the same flat plane
of flint and ashlar stone. It is characteristic of medieval buildings, most of
the survivors churches, in several areas of Southern England, but espe-
cially East Anglia. If the stone projects from a flat flint wall, the term

is proudwork - as the stone stands "proud" rather than being "flush" with
the wall.

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