Fleuron (architecture) explained
A fleuron is a flower-shaped ornament,[1] and in architecture may have a number of meanings:
- It is a collective noun for the ornamental termination at the ridge of a roof, such as a crop, finial or épi.
- It is also a form of stylised Late Gothic decoration in the form of a four-leafed square, often seen on crockets and cavetto mouldings.
- It can be the ornament in the middle of each concave face of a Corinthian abacus.
- Finally, it can be a form of anthemion, a Greek floral ornament.[2]
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Notes and References
- "Fleuron" Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM (v. 4.0) © Oxford University Press 2009
- Book: Curl
, James Stevens
. A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture . 2006 . registration . Second . Oxford University Press . 0-19-860678-8 . 880 pages .
