stringcourse

stringcourse
/string"kawrs', -kohrs'/, n. Archit.
a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved. Also called belt course.
[1815-25; STRING + COURSE]

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 in architecture, decorative horizontal band on the exterior wall of a building. Such a band, either plain or molded, is usually formed of brick or stone. The stringcourse occurs in virtually every style of Western architecture, from Classical Roman through Anglo-Saxon and Renaissance to modern.

      Often the stringcourse is used as a line of demarcation between the stories of a multistoried building. It is also used, especially in classical and neoclassical works, as an extension of the upper or lower horizontal line of a bank of windows. Examples may be seen on the Pantheon, built in Rome in the 2nd century AD; on many palaces of Renaissance Italy, including the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi (1444–59) and the Palazzo Strozzi (1489–1539), both in Florence; and on various manor houses in the English Renaissance style of the mid-16th to early 19th centuries.

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