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Terminal Figures

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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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.
 
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