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Lesene
Also called lesenes, pilaster strip, pilaster strips
A pilaster strip: a shallow vertical projection without base or capital, articulating a Romanesque wall.
See also: Lombard band
Rules that use the word
Lombard bands and pilaster strips. Articulate plain rubble walls outside with shallow vertical strips (lesenes) linked at the top by a frieze of small round arches on corbels: the Lombard band.
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters Romanesque and Gothic.
Nearby in the glossary
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