ashlar
Example Sentences
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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
Only the pilasters, cornices, door and window dressings are of granite ashlar, all the rest being of rubble plastered and whitewashed.
From Portuguese Architecture by Walter Crum Watson
The dust of his travels was on it, and the roughness of his new beard, and it was harsh in some of its lines, and severe as an ashlar from the craftsman’s tool.
From The Rustler of Wind River by George W. (George Washington) Ogden
They were made of rubble ashlar masonry, three feet square and seven feet in height.
From A Study of Recent Earthquakes by Charles Davison
