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They are called the quoins, which merely means the corners.
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Besides the quoins, the sills, lintels, and water table are all sandstone as well.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The front (south) facade is trimmed with limestone quoins, beltcourses and architraves.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Terra cotta also forms the quoins every sixth course on the corner towers up to the small peaked roofs.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Even the corners (quoins) are of flint, although these are somewhat larger on the whole than those built into the body of the walls.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The old schoolroom is a plain structure, built of gritstone with quoins at the corners and a slate roof.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The uncrenellated tower is a simple square design with carrstone quoins.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Its first four floors are lightly rusticated; deep quoins carry the rusticated feature up the corners to the boldly projecting top cornice.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These motifs included rusticated masonry and quoins, windows framed by architraves and doors crowned by pediments and entablatures.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The windowsills, lintels, and quoins are of limestone.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Of the medieval structure, blocked windows, a chamfered doorway and the original north-east angle quoins are all that remains visible now.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The brink basement storey is stuccoed and has stucco quoins of inch projection.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The rough-faced ashlar masonry features contrasting quoins and belt courses.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The next course up will begin with aquoinheader.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A fire in 1844 gutted the house, which was rebuilt within its shell of brown sandstone with limestone quoins.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The house is decorated with gray limestone quoins.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Since that time, the house has been significantly altered with much of the original wood details removed, including quoins, and covered with vinyl siding.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is two-storey high and contains an attic, three windows and two dormers as well as grey headers with red brick dressings and quoins.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Headers are used as quoins on alternating stretching courses in order to achieve the necessary off-set.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.At the 12th floor, the wall is red face brick, with quoins of architectural terracotta at the corners of the building.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.