Architecture - Re: What's the name of this raised thingie?

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Re: What's the name of this raised thingie?

tbasc@bellsouth.net

2005-06-16, 2:34 pm

Lantern is pretty old fashioned, I agree.
It's use is probably limited to history of architecture.
Having grown up around farms, I think of a cupola as a venting device
on barns.
Here is a definistion from the same dictionary:
Italian, a concave ceiling, of any curve, covering a circular or
polygonal area; also a roof, the exterior of which is of either form
and more usually called a dome.

TB

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