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Cupola
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(Ital., from Lat. copula, small cask or vault, cupa, tub), a term, in architecture, for a spherical or spheroidal covering to a building, or to any part of it. In fortification the word is used of a form of armoured structure, in which guns or howitzers are mounted. It is a low flat turret resembling an overturned saucer and showing little above the ground except the muzzles of the guns. See for details and illustrations Fortification And Siegecraft; also Ordnance.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Cupola'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/c/cupola.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Cupola'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/c/cupola.html. 1910.
