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span⋅drel

  [span-druhl]
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–noun
1. Architecture. an area between the extradoses of two adjoining arches, or between the extrados of an arch and a perpendicular through the extrados at the springing line.
2. (in a steel-framed building) a panellike area between the head of a window on one level and the sill of a window immediately above.
3. Philately. the decoration occupying the space at the corner of a stamp between the border and an oval or circular central design.
Also, spandril.

Origin:
1470–80; earlier spaundrell, prob. < AF spaundre, itself perh. c. OF espandre to expand
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span·drel also span·dril   (spān'drəl)   


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n.  
  1. The roughly triangular space between the left or right exterior curve of an arch and the rectangular framework surrounding it.
  2. The space between two arches and a horizontal molding or cornice above them.

[Middle English spaundrell, probably from spandre, space between supporting timbers, from Anglo-Norman spaundre, from spandre, to spread out, from Latin expandere; see expand.]
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Spandrel

Span"drel\, n. [From Span.]

1. (Arch.) The irregular triangular space between the curve of an arch and the inclosing right angle; or the space between the outer moldings of two contiguous arches and a horizontal line above them, or another arch above and inclosing them.

2. A narrow mat or passe partout for a picture. [Cant]
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spandrel 
1477, "triangular space between the outer curves of an arch," apparently a diminutive of Anglo-Fr. spaundre (1395), perhaps aphetic of espandre "to expand, extend," from L. expandre (see expand).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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