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Terminal Figures
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
Also called "termini" or "terms," in architecture, figures of which the upper parts only, or perhaps the head and shoulders alone, are carved, the rest running into a parallelopiped, and sometimes into a diminishing pedestal, with feet indicated below, or even without them (see Hermae).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Terminal Figures'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/t/terminal-figures.html. 1910.