ashlar

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The syncopation of transparent and opaque windows, alternating with ashlar panels, can suggest the patterns of kente cloth.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2022

When he began with Bambridge, it took him three days to make an ashlar.

From Time Magazine Archive

The arch is carried on three attached shafts on each side, built in ashlar, and provided with subdivided cushion caps and plain bases.

From Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys by Butler, Dugald

The well, a plain ashlar pipe six feet in diameter, is in the south-western angle of the floor in the western chamber.

From Memorials of Old London Volume I by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)

Whatever the cause, certain it is that here we miss the close-jointed external ashlar that we are accustomed to see in such grand contemporary Norman keeps as those of Castle Hedingham and Scarborough.

From The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Harper, Charles G.