Coussinet

Quick meaning: Coussinet is a noun meaning (architecture) A stone placed on the impost of a pier for receiving the first stone of an arch or vault.

Meaning

(architecture) A stone placed on the impost of a pier for receiving the first stone of an arch or vault.

More Meanings

1. (architecture) Part of the Ionic capital between the abacus and quarter round, which forms the volute.

Example Sentences

The term balteus is also used by Vitruvius to denote the strap which seems to bind up the coussinet or cushion of the Ionic capital.

Many details merely painted on in the Doric order, like the leaves on the molding, the coussinet, etc., are presented plastically in the Ionic.

It has not only a carved coussinet, little ledge and plinth, but receives both to the right and left a spiral winding, and at the sides a decorative kind of cushion, wfrom which is derivedi ts title of the pulvinated capital.

Investigation by analysis of the pressures and resistances of an arch, 1st . Hypothesis of a plat-band; stability at the springing charge necessary on the coussinet; stability of the plat-band on its piers; thickness of the piers.

Word Forms

• coussinets

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include quoin, coign, crossette, quoining, cubile, cradle.

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