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  • Eave
  • Echinus
  • Echinus Column
  • Egg and Dart
  • Emblema
  • Embrasure
  • Enamelwork
  • Encarpus
  • Engaged Column
  • Entasis
  • Escutcheon
  • Ex-votos
  • Exedra

The projecting lower edge of a roof.

The convex molding supporting the abacus, sometimes ornamented with an egg and dart pattern.

A convex molding just below the abacus of a Doric capital.

A molding consisting of fleur detailegg-shaped figures alternating with arrow heads.

NYC - Central Park: Bethesda TerraceThe central motif in a mosaic often set off by a frame and better made than the background.

An opening in a thick wall for a door or window, especially one with sides angled so that the opening is larger on the inside of the wall than on the outside.  A flared opening for a gun in a wall or parapet.

Glass like material that is liquefied and applied and allowed to dry.

Used to enhance flat surfaces, it was a fruit or flower festoon.

A column attached to, or partly sunk into, a wall or pier. Also called an “applied column” or “attached column.”