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spicatum

spicatum is the ellipsis of opus spicatum.

Meaning of opus spicatum

Noun

opus spicatum (uncountable)

  1. (Ancient-Rome) Herringbone masonry.
    • One sees in it a pediment in the Empire style on a Jesuit portico; it has rusticated galleries, colonnades like those of the Louvre, Renaissance staircases, Gothic halls, and a Roman crypt. If one were to expose the foundations, one would come upon opus spicatum and Roman cement.1910, M. P. Willcocks, transl., chapter VI, in Frederic Chapman, editor, The Wicker Work Woman: A Chronicle of Our Own Times, translation of Le Mannequin d'osier by Anatole France
    Synonyms:
    spicatum

Phrases with spicatum

Questions about spicatum

What is spicatum the ellipsis of?
Spicatum is the ellipsis of opus spicatum.

Words near spicatum in the dictionary

  1. spicataside
  2. spicate
  3. spicated
  4. spicately
  5. spicatoside
  6. spicatum
  7. spicc.
  8. spiccato
  9. spiccatos
  10. spice
  11. spice bag

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