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Dosseret

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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or impost block (a Fr. term, from dos, back), in architecture, the cubical block of stone above the capitals in a Byzantine church, used to carry the arches and vault, the springing of which had a superficial area greatly in excess of the column which carried them.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Dosseret'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​d/dosseret.html. 1910.
 
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