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 design of these entrance gateways is extremely simple and massive, depending for their effect on the fine ashlar masonry in which they are built, the decoration being more or less confined to ornamental disks.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various
The walls are made up of rubble and flints, with ashlar dressing, as is supposed to have been the case throughout the original church, where, however, the flints are said to have been squared.
The windows of the ground floor, set in deeply-hewn ashlar work, were cross-barred as those of a prison.
From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Lucas Malet
