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Perpent
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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or Parpent Stones, in architecture, bond or "through stones," the &.arOvot of the Greeks and Romans, long stones going right through walls, and tying them together from face to face. The O. Fr. parpain, modern parpaing, from which this word is derived, is obscure in origin. It may be from a supposed Lat. perpago, perpaginis, formed like co y npago, a joint, from the root of pangere, to fasten, and meaning "something fastened together," or from some popular corruption of Lat. perpendiculum, plummet or plumb-line (pir or pendere, to hang), referring to the smooth perpendicular faces of the stone.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Perpent'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/p/perpent.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Perpent'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/p/perpent.html. 1910.
