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Lunette
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(French diminutive of lune, moon), a crescentshaped, semi-circular object. The term is particularly applied in architecture to a circular opening at the intersection of vaulting by a smaller vault, as in a ceiling for the entrance of light or in the lower stories of towers for the passage of bells. It is also used of a panel space of semi-circular shape, filled by a fresco or other decorative treatment. In fortification a "lunette" was originally an earthwork of half-moon shape; later it became a redan with short flanks, in trace somewhat resembling a bastion standing by itself without curtains on either side. The gorge was generally open.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Lunette'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/l/lunette.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Lunette'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/l/lunette.html. 1910.
