boltel

[bohl-tuhl]

noun Architecture.

Also, boutel, boutell, bowtel, bowtell. a convex molding, as a torus or ovolo.

Also, bottle. a curved fractable.

Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English boltell, equivalent to bolt bolt¹ + -ell noun suffix

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a building of exceptional height completely supported by a framework, as of girders, from which the walls are suspended, as opposed to a building supported by load-bearing walls

a series of regularly spaced columns supporting an entablature and usually making up one side of a roof

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